I want to claim my home office expenses for working from home. Do I fill out BOTH sections of Turbotax (ENTIRE home expenses PLUS the office space only?)

Are you an employee working from home or are you self-employed with a business using a home office?

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I am an employee working from home (not self employed, not sure why that was tagged). Using a bedroom as home office in my home. 

It would depend on what expense you have. If you enter something in the "Expenses which you incurred for the entire home", then the expense will be prorated based on the amount of your home that you use for your work. If you put something in the "Expenses which you incurred for office space only (not for entire home)", then the whole expense will be deducted.

This helps! 
ok so I only fill in one or the other. 

Next question- I’m entering my electricity amount, as well as my internet amount. 

So I would enter the entire amount for each expense (ie. electricity for entire home is 2000$ - do I enter in the ENTIRE home section, 2000$ or do I enter only the portion for the room - ie. if room is 10 percent of home size, then enter 200$ in this block for entire home expense?) 

You can fill in both sections, if you have something for both. Or only the bottom part if you have an expense that you only use for your work space and not for personal use in the rest of the house.

If you enter an expense in "Expenses which you incurred for the entire home", then you would put in the entire amount for the whole house. The program will calculate what part can be deducted based on the amount of the home you use for work.  So you would enter $2000 and then TurboTax will reduce it to $200.

My question expands on the working from home expenses. For hydro example I have a yearly total of 2670. What column do I put that in (GST Taxable, HST Taxable, Zero Rated & Exempt). I only have that and internet, so I am wanting to make sure I am putting it in the right place. 

@jodimartyhood You would enter the amount based on what kind of sales tax you paid.

Ok, that's where I put it. Once I put those in, do I do anything else, or does the system calculate everything for me? 

@jodimartyhood Yes. If you've filled out all the needed info on the page, then TurboTax will do any needed calculations.

Hello, i need some clarification, i work from home salaried employeed i was given t2200. 

I am living on rent, and want to claim the rent and also my internet fees, where do i claim this?

Under employment expense profile do i select Other Employment Expenses or Office in Home Expenses

once i click either or where do i add my rent and internet? For example if i click office in home expense, i choose 3 bedroom and office space is one bedroom

so my office portion usage is 33% - so under other do i write rent and for zero rated/exempt do I write the monthly that the 33% came out to be or do i times that by 12 to add for the whole year? please advise the software is not so user friendly

You can claim under Office in Home Expenses. You can claim all of the rent you paid for the year under zero/rated & exempt,  You can include your internet along with heating, etc. under HST if this is the taxes you paid on your bill. The software will calculate the percentage allowed according to the rooms you have entered. If you have a kitchen, 3 bedrooms, bathroom and living room and you used one bedroom, you would say you have 6 rooms and are using one for work space.

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@TurboTaxGinette @TurboTaxSusan  Hello Team, I am bit confused as where to enter rent portion into work from home in expense. I am a salaried employee and worked from home  for entire year.  I am renting 2 BR apartment where I have made one room as office. Per my understanding total rooms will be 2 BB + 1 Kitchen + 1 Living + 1 Bathroom = 5 . And hence I enter  total rooms as 5 and 1 room for office use.

I ONLY SEE BELOW OPTIONS TO ENTER INFO, BUT NOT FOR THE RENT and Internet amount. Do we need to use Other Specify section? If yes, then how to use one field for putting two amounts?

Rent will go under "Other" - Entire home expense - Zero-rated and exempt. 

Internet will go under "Other"-Entire home expense- (enter the amount under the tax that is paid on it).

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So for Alectra if the bill for the year is 1000 dollars where do I put it - GST coluumn, HST or Zero rated ? 

same for Enbridge and Water ?

@pggas You would enter the amount based on what kind of sales tax you paid.

Hello, 

I'm struggling on where to put my GST Taxable/HST taxable

I use 10% of my home for working from home full time. I use Hydro, Internet, Heat/AC. 

I also have Maintenance done to the room.  Do I put total costs somewhere?

I'm so confused lol if anyone can help please! 

Are you self-employed or an employee?

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How can I tell what kind of tax I was charged?

@Jes15 Look at your receipts.