Home Office

[CoosBay]

How do I get Home office Form 8829 to flow to Schedule E rentals?

 

[NECPA in NEBRASKA]

Normally, rental property doesn't get a home office deduction.

[RitaB]

I agree that normally Sch E filers do not have a home office or the deduction.  That's why the data won't flow.  It also won't flow for Sch F filers or unreimbursed partners.  However, in Pub 587, the instructions address using a worksheet (instead of Form 8829) for farmers and unreimbursed partners.  If the rentals are a trade or business, I think you'd have an argument for using the worksheet and taking the deduction.  (I'd just use 8829 and enter the results on Sch E manually, we've established that it won't flow. keep the 8829 in the file. give taxpayer a copy).  There was a landlord who successfully defended the deduction in tax court.  It wasn't me, and I've never entered that deduction for a landlord. 

[Lee B]

However , I have entered UPE on the schedule E page 2 worksheet for an LLC partner when the only office for the LLC was the home office for one of the partners.

[RitaB]

45 minutes ago, cbslee said:

However , I have entered UPE on the schedule E page 2 worksheet for an LLC partner when the only office for the LLC was the home office for one of the partners.

Same.