Both spouses use home office for different business. Can both claim home office? If not, is it better to claim under higher or lower income?

[TurboTaxSusan · Accepted solution]

You can both claim home office expenses. You would have to split the “gross” expense amount between the two spouse’s t2125s. Ex: Bekka & Tom spent $2000 on electricity for their home. Each put $1000 as their “business use of home” electricity cost. If they both use 1 room out of a 10 room house then each would get $100 claimed as an expense.

You would each have to claim your own expenses on your own return, if you have separate businesses. If you share a business, you can split the expenses based on how you split the business, or by whoever incurred the expense.