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🔍 Title: Form 2106: Entering employee home office expenses
This guide shows you how to enter home office expenses on Form 2106.
⚠️ Before You Begin
Make sure you are entering employee home office expenses (Form 2106 is for employees).
📊 Step-by-Step Guide
Step 1: Open the return and go to Schedule A (1040)
Use this when you need to access the correct forms area in your return.
Open the return, and go to Schedule A (1040).
Step 2: Link to Form 2106 Pg 1
Use this when you need to start the Form 2106 entry.
Go to line 8 and link (F9) to Form 2106 Pg 1 - Employee Business Expenses Pg 1.
Step 3: Link to the Office in the Home worksheet
Use this when you need to enter the business use of home details.
Go to line 4 and link (F9) on the F9 business use of home worksheet field and link to the NEW Office Wkt - Employee Office In The Home Worksheet.
Step 4: Complete the worksheet information
Use this when you are ready to enter your home office expense details.
Complete all applicable information on the Expenses for Business Use of Your Home and Employee worksheet.
✅ Success!
You have entered the employee home office expenses using Form 2106 and the Office In The Home worksheet.
❌ Notes
Make sure if you enter home mortgage interest, real estate taxes, or casualty losses on lines 9-11, you also enter these amounts in full on Sch A. These items are used on Form 2106 only for limitation purposes.
Form 2106 is used only for employees. If you are self-employed, you should use Form 8829 for your office-in-home expenses. (This is linked from line 30 of Sch C (1040)).
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