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January 14, 2020
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How can my whole house be 260 sq feet but one room in the house is a 100 sq feet? I’m trying to calculate my home office but it doesn’t make sense that my office is 10x10 and my whole house

  • January 14, 2020
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260 sq feet

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GiseleD
January 14, 2020

I’m approaching this question assuming that your home office pertains to self-employment.

 

It sounds like a typo is the culprit here. May I recommend that you review your square footage entries? Here’s how to do this in TurboTax Online:

  1. Under Income & Expenses (tab at the top of your screen), click Review next to Self-employment income and expenses (this assumes that you have already entered your self-employed income).
  2. Click Review again next to the specific self-employed activity and scroll down to the Expenses category.
  3. Click Review next to Home office.
  4. Proceed through the interview until you get to the page that says: What was the size of this home office. Double check your entries here.  
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Carl11_2
Employee
January 15, 2020

Looks to me like you made a type and incorrectly entered 260 when  you should have entered 2600. That would be the expected square footage of a 4 bedroom house with 2 or 3 full baths and a 2 or 3 car garage.