Hey there!
For context, my partner and I are filing together as common-law. We both do different work from home (using different dedicated rooms) and split rent, hydro, water, and internet, but have our own independent phone plans. On TurboTax, under home expenses, it says: "Enter the total amounts for your home in 2025, and we’ll calculate the business portion."
We're wondering: does "total amount" here mean that we input 100% of our annual bills for rent, hydro, water, internet, and phone? For example, if our total rent for the year equals $20,000, would we both input $20,000? Or would we individually input $10,000 to collectively equal our total annual bill for rent? Just confused by the vague Turbotax wording here.
Regarding our phone & internet bills (which we use both for personal and business use): would we each enter our annual phone & internet bills (at 100%), assuming that Turbotax will calculate the appropriate "business %" for us based on our total square footage of home office space? Or would it be more accurate to first establish personal usage percentage (50%) vs. business usage percentage (50%), inputting only the "total amount" for our business usage percentage?
Trying to figure out the nuance here. Thanks so much for any insight!
