We are happy to report that the T777S/T777 forms have been updated and you can now complete entering your employment expenses.
We have included below our TurboTax FAQ link to help you with this if needed.
Employment Expenses Tax Info Centre
Thank you for your patience.
I upadted my TurboTax this morning Feb. 17 2021 and still could not find the form T777s. When will this form be available?"
We are happy to report that the T777S/T777 forms have been updated and you can now complete entering your employment expenses.
Expenses related to a home workspace can be included on line 22900 but there are considerations to review with the new allowances and possibilities available due to Covid 19 this year.
Here are Canada Revenue Agency links with information regarding Expenses Tax Info Centre CRA Eligibility criteria - Temporary flat rate method
Note:
If using the form method, one of the forms required is the T777S-Statement of Employment Expenses for Working at Home Due to COVID-19. For the flat rate method to be activated in TurboTax Online, you enter your T4 and scroll down to the bottom where you will be asked about working from home. You will then go answer questions under employment expenses.
If using TurboTax CD/Download please see our link below for guidance.
Where do I claim my employment expenses in the CD/download edition of TurboTax?
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Sorry...I am trying to find this under the Employment Expenses section on Turbotax Online Standard. There is NO option or reference to this form whatsoever. Only the T2200(s) are available to select. Can you please tell me when this form will be added so I may complete my return? Yes, I selected the option to claim COVID expenses after entering my T4 info.
Found it; this link may help you. https://turbotax.community.intuit.ca/community/filing/discussion/can-i-submit-a-t777s-form-through-turbotax/00/1918738#M4308
The only option here is to enter your number of days but line for 9939 is still missing.
9939 is calculated based on the number of days you work. When you enter in the information that indicates you should be using T777S, it will ask you how many days you worked from home. You enter that, the system multiplies it by $2, and then gives you your total credit amount.
I did input the number of days but no total amount for the claim
Please read my full response over again. You only put in the number of days. The rest is a simple multiplication by $2 that the system automatically does. I would screenshot the actual form, but I've completed my return already. As an alternative, I've attached an anonymized screenshot of the T777S TurboTax generated for me. You can see by the watermark that this was created by TurboTax.
I see, I thought there will be new page showing this form so its auto-generated once you input the number of days. thanks for the help
it doesn't look like the turbo tax form is calculating the credit properly. any info in when it might get fixed?
What about the credit is calculated correctly? As I show above, it works fine.
the detailed method gives no option currently to claim a designated work space.
Ah, for the detailed method you may want to create a new thread. This thread hasn’t really touched on that.
Hi it seems that the employment expenses using the detailed method (with a designated room - due to covid) is not calculating properly and missing some input information.
I have entered my amounts under employment expenses for each relevant line on the T777S (ie: rent, electricity etc) but nothing is flowing to line 22900, that line remains zero. Maybe its not working because we are also supposed to also enter the square footage of the designated room over the total square footage to determine the percentage used form employments use. However I don't see where we would enter this info.
Turbotax, please advise if I am missing a step, or if the form has yet to be finalized by you and when you will be updating it .
Thank you