From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!npois!houxi!ihps3!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxj!cbosgd!mark
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Re: Working at home
Article-I.D.: cbosgd.2474
Posted: Sat Jul 31 15:56:42 1982
Received: Thu Aug  5 06:19:07 1982

I work at home one day a week (group policy) and also in spare time
nights and weekends.  I think it's a big win because I don't get
interrupted by phone calls, people coming in, and office mates,
so I get lots more done.  (This situation may change once we have
children running around.)  It's hard to concentrate on something
hairy when you're interrupted all the time.

I'd like to hear from someone what the tax situation is.  Presumably
there are lots of people out there who have been working at home for
a number of years under similar circumstances.  Assuming that I keep
one bedroom of my house exclusively for a home office, and I work at
home part of the time by employer policy, do I have to meet some other
conditions to qualify?  In computing what fraction of my home is my
office, if I go by rooms, which rooms do I have to count?  (E.g. just
bedrooms, living, dining, family, kitchen, or do I also have to
count bathrooms, hallways, basement, etc?)  What about depreciation -
can one claim depreciation on the appropriate fraction of the home,
and if so, how is it typically done?  (I don't claim to understand
the process, but it seemed to me you could depreciate over 4 years
using sum-of-the-years-digits and get 1/3 of the fraction of the
value of the house as the first year deduction - am I missing something?)
Does the fact that the house really appreciates enter in somewhere?

I know this isn't tax time, but I'm trying to plan ahead.

	Mark