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Posted By: Legal eagle on 2005-09-11
In Reply to: If you had your very own office at home, - Survey Says
for a home office deduction you have to meet the following criteria. Don't overdecorate or they may get you...
Do You Have a Deductible Home Office? |
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Tax 2005-54, March 17, 2005
Whether you are self-employed or an employee, if you use a portion of your home exclusively and regularly for business purposes, you may be able to take a home office deduction.
You can deduct certain expenses if your home office is the principal place where your trade or business is conducted or where you meet and deal with clients or patients in the course of your business. If you use a separate structure not attached to your home for an exclusive and regular part of your business, you can deduct expenses related to it.
Your home office will qualify as your principal place of business if you use it exclusively and regularly for the administrative or management activities associated with your trade or business. There must be no other fixed place where you conduct substantial administrative or management activities. If you use both your home and other locations regularly in your business, you must determine which location is your principle place of business, based on the relative importance of the activities performed at each location. If the relative importance factor doesn't determine your principle place of business, you can also consider the time spent at each location.
If you are an employee, you have additional requirements to meet. You cannot take the home office deduction unless the business use of your home is for the convenience of your employer. Also, you cannot take deductions for space you are renting to your employer.
Generally, the amount you can deduct depends on the percentage of your home used for business. Your deduction will be limited if your gross income from your business is less than your total business expenses.
Expenses that you can deduct for business use of the home may include the business portion of real estate taxes, mortgage interest, rent, utilities, insurance, depreciation, painting and repairs. However, you may not deduct expenses for lawn care or those related to rooms not used for business.
There are special rules for qualified daycare providers and for persons storing business inventory or product samples.
For more information, see IRS Publication 587, Business Use of Your Home.
If you are self-employed, use Form 8829, Expenses for Business Use of Your Home, to figure your home office deduction and report those deductions on line 30 of Schedule C, Form 1040. Employees can use the worksheet in Pub. 587 to figure their allowable expenses and claim them as a miscellaneous itemized deduction on Schedule A, Form 1040.
To be on the safe side, you may also want to review IRS Publication 4035, Home-Based Business Tax Avoidance Schemes, which describes schemes that claim to offer tax relief but which actually result in illegal tax avoidance.
IRS publications and forms are available on this Web site or by calling the IRS at 1-800-TAX-FORM (1-800-829-3676).
Links:
Publication 587, Business Use of Your Home ( PDF 214K)
Form 8829, Expenses for Business Use of Your Home ( PDF 64K)
Schedule C, Profit or Loss from Business ( PDF 111K)
Schedules A&B, Itemized Deductions and Interest & Dividend Income ( PDF 116K)
Publication 4035, Home-Based Business Tax Avoidance Schemes ( PDF 1704K)
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Yes I qualify
He owns the home we currently live in, that is why I have to move. :0)
Yes it will help to use RE taxes at the end of the year. Thanks.
If you qualify for financial aid
You might want to consider looking into EVCC. It is a community college that uses the Career Step courseware, but you have instructors and accept Pell Grants and Stafford Loans.
EVCC grads get the same consideration from employers as Career Step grads.
If you can get the work to qualify for the
benefits. You pretty much have to work when there is work even though you have a set schedule. Not sure about LD. I know a few they have and a few they haven't. As far as management, there is a lot to be desired.
I'd look elsewhere. Transtech was hiring for Radiology and I hear they are a good company.
If you like to be treated like crap and fight for work, WELCOME TO MDI!
If you feel they need, they qualify. nm
You may qualify for unemployment, but...
You can not draw unemployment and go back to college. You have to be available and read to work, even if the employment commission finds you a job. Going back to college would stop your payments immediately I'm afraid.
There must be other jobs we would qualify for with
our experience as medical transcriptionists. Any ideas on what other jobs might be out there, or we could possibly take some course and land another type of position. I would love to know in what direction to move since the inevitable is all over the place, that we will all be unemployed at some point. Even though Editor jobs are still available, that will come to an end sooner or later too. We have to prepare ourselves now for the future. I predict in about 5 years our job will be extinct. Let's put our heads together and come up with a solution to find other employment with our skills.
If you had sweet tea and biscuits then you qualify as a....
So this does qualify as continuous coverage, right? Thanks for your help. NM
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Changing shift and cut in pay both qualify as material changes, but . . .
it is super hard to draw unemployment for these reasons. My state has pretty much the same rule, but even after being forced to change job duties (MT to computer programming), go back to working in house (45 minute drive), go from second to first shift, and put my child in day care (at my old hospital job), I couldn't draw unemployment because I quit.
Which companies allow you to work under 40 hours and still qualify for benefits?
Thanks for any and all help. 
If you have the Works Suite you qualify for the upgrade version.
I just recently bought the Small Business version upgrade with Word 2003 (the computer came with Works Suite)for my new computer. It still has Windows XP. I have Word 2002 with Works Suite on my other computer. I am thinking about getting the Student Teacher edition for my other computer and my mom's computer, as it can be put on 3 computers. My license with the Small Business upgrade says one computer only. I was a little disappointed about this, as I wanted to put in on both computers. I thought I could use it on both as long as I personally used both of them, but not at the same time.
can you not work 6 hours a day and still qualify for full time? sm
i know most places it is usually 30 or 32 hours constitute full time. if it is 30 hours, then you could do 6 hour days 5 days a week and get in 30. is there a possibility you could do a split shift and that would allow your feet and you rest time between shifts? guess no possibility of working from home, LOL. i definitely understand your frustrations. sometimes the good employees get the short end of the stick cuz they need you the most.
not in age-order...but
sun-in for the hair was as brave as we got -- and trying to convince dad i didn't do anything to my hair...
rolling up our skirts at the waist when we got to school so they'd be above our knees..
when velvet oxfords were the coolest
when rollerskates had keys (i still have my key)
getting vaccines at school via sugar cubes
or howabout when seatbelts first came out in cars...
going to visit great-grandma and she would sit and read the Bible, while i read "highlights" magazine and how she'd try to give me 'a penny' for my thoughts...
Must See TV (in no particular order)
1. Law and Order (especially SVU)
2. Judge Judy
3. Dr. Phil
4. Dateline.
You can just order them that way.
I ordered mine from Gateway w/ XP and really like it.
Where to order from:
This is the best place I have found, from Executive Communications. You can email Tom at:
ecssales@tvps.com
or go to their website, just Google Executive Communications. It is located in Ventura, California.
You can order them here
http://www.softflex.com/
the natural order in the would does not
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Well, I guess we better never, ever order from them again
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No wonder they can never hear your order. nm
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....Would you like India with your order sir?
I can understand how incredible it seems that fast food chains are outsourcing BPO services, BUT IT IS TRUE.
Will never order a Dell again
I ordered an XPS400, over $1,000, with extras. I was assured this had a 15-pin game port for transcription, did not need to have it added on. Get it in the mail today and no game port. There is a 15-pin port, but the monitor is on it. They said it included a DVI adaptor for the monitor, said it was included, but it is not. So I tried Delll Chat and was not able to get through, was told I was not a customer.
whoops - in order to see them all....sm
in my prior post, in order to see them ALL, you have to scroll all the way down in my prior post.............sorry *L*
Congratulations are again in order...
 He just came to get the rest of his belongings! Two police officers were with him. It's snowing here, but I put everything and I mean EVERYTHING of his outside. He took his dog and off he went. I watched all of it from my livingroom window.
On a personal note, today is his 28th birthday! I say Happy Freakin' Birthday and GOOOOOOD RIDDANCE!!!!
Here is a list of emoticons to demonstrate how I'm feeling...       It's the beginning of the end of my marriage and I love it. Whooooooppppeeeeee!!!!! Congratulate me!!!!!
It's not in order of just generic???
The drug information is under the generic of the medication. It's in order of brand as well but under brand it says see (generic name) on page --- for the information on it. I love this book and use it constantly.
My first order of business would be...
to desposit an unexpected load in my shorts at winning! Holy crap that is awesome for you! I can squeeze the living daylights out of a dollar, and with that kind of cash I'd most definitely put myself down for a sabattacle from the danged keyboard! I'd invest it, just because I've always wanted to do that but never had nuthin' to work with. Lame, I know, but I don't call myself "hayseed" for nuthin'!
Congratulations again!! Wow!!
Order new computer without it ....
Was told by computer person not to get it. By the end of the year there would be another update to correct everything that was wrong with Vista. Same thing happened with Millenium. I will be waiting for the next update.
need to order a dell with XP.
or should I be able to just order it on-line? Any preferences? Thank you. Merry Christmas.
NEED TO ORDER A DELL WITH XP
I AM SORRY TO PUT THIS HERE, BUT I CANNOT GET A REPLY FROM MT STARS. CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO SEND A MESSAGE TO THIS BOARD. THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH.
ALSO, I KNOW GATEWAY WILL SELL YOU DESKTOP WITH XP, BUT IF YOU WANT A LAPTOP, YOU HAVE TO BUY A REFURBISHED ONE TO GET XP. THERE IS NO EXTRA CHARGE TO PUT XP ON.
Welcome to the New World Order!
Our losing our jobs to overseas companies is part of "globalization," which is a major facet of creating their New World Order.
Why would you need to get out of anything in order to look up info?????
All you need to do is minimize screens to bottom . . . HUH??
Thanks so much. I will Google PC Concepts and see what I come up with. Where did you order your
keyboard - on line? Thanks!!!
All the Law and Order reruns ROCK
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anyone ever order from comfort keyboard or
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Gag order on employees-Is This Legal?
From the company board... Is this legal? To have a gag order on employees?
Here is the link: http://forum.mtstars.com/company/v/1/4575.html
Call a recruiter. No new employee can tell you this and let me tell you why...
There is a very specific, fairly new paragraph in the information that new hires are sent: If you talk about your salary, you can be terminated.
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sounds like saturated order? sm
...drainage from her abdominal incision saturated?? order received....
Tried to order a keyboard from Dell.
Had ordered several from them before on line because I like their keyboards.
Went to their site, tried to pull up my order history, but it didn't work, so I called. I wound up with someone SOMEWHERE in the world (not the USA), explained that I needed to order the same keyboard I ordered before. (They had added new ones, so I wasn't sure which one I had ordered, and I couldn't pull up my past order history.)
Anyway, she kept asking me if I was using my business or personal credit card. I explained my situation to her, that it was just a keyboard, and I wanted to put it on my credit card, but she still kept asking if it was business or personal, so much, in fact, that I became very leery of dealing with her, wound up telling her so and HUNG UP.
Turns out I had to buy a new computer in the last couple of weeks. My choice WOULD have been Dell, but after my previous experience, I bought an Acer instead and LOVE it. It's a LOT cheaper and works just fine.
I sometimes feel like the "queen" of on-line ordering, and I've never, ever had an experience with ordering on line that gave me such a negative "gut feeling" as I had with Dell.
All I can say is be very, very careful. 
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Thanks for your help.
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Help with Linking Order IDs in EXText
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Link order IDs?? - what are you talking about??
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By reputation, in order: 1. Andrews 2. M-TEC
Those are the big 3, and I've read enough posts on enough boards over the years to say that I think there really is a very strong general consensus on the order I've put them in. Andrews and M-Tec are actually probably fairly close together in terms of reputation, with Career Step following close behind those 2.
Sounds like it would be more a matter of balancing the costs, time, etc., versus what is offered by each, but if possible, I would think going with Andrews would not only result in better career opportunities, but also just a lot less frustration in the future with difficult dictators, etc., because of the better overall training and foundation they give.
Ctrl K in order to add items to your sm
expansion (in the "text to type" box), such as bold, underline, enter. Don't forget to use the ctrl K and whatever "function" key you used to turn on the function, to turn it off again. For example, Ctrl K, then Ctrl B turns on the bold function, but it will need to be turned off by the same method after you type "HISTORY OF PRESENT ILLNESS:" in the text to type box when initially creating your expansion.
hth!
You don't say what the order of plugging/unplugging was.
I know that in the past this has created a problem for me. I have had to reset my modem a few times but, more often, the problem was with the router. Simply unplugging my router (while the cable was connected to it) to reset it has solved that problem.
You have to in order to get back into the software, but it's not
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Do you have to work for a company in order to use VR?
Can an IC MT also do VR, or is the cost for VR too expensive for IC's to buy and use themselves? I am curious, as I see many MT's posting about VR, and I wonder if they are transcribing for a company or as an IC.
Also, if you are an IC and do use VR, what is the best program and how much does it cost.
Thanks for any and all advice~
Absolutely order and download one right now.
Recommend Instant Text of the two--apparently Smart Type doesn't always interface as well IT or Shorthand.
And you're right--using a professional-quality Expander program is not only the way to make decent money these days, those not using an expander extensively in the future will be forced out of the field. Kind of like those people who not that long ago refused to learn to use a computer, wherever they are...
rxlist.com - alphabetical order.
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Call the money order company to see
if you can stop pay or trace the money order. It supposedly can be done now. Then send her a certified letter demanding the equipment or a refund, or you'll sue in small claims court.
I love Oriental food, do you order out
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