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