Question

Pete qualifies for a home office deduction. The amount of space devoted to business use is 300 square feet of the total 1,200 square feet in his apartment. Pete's total rent for the year is $9,600, and he pays utilities (other than telephone) of $2,500 for the year.Calculate Pete’s deduction for home office expenses before the gross income limitation.
Rent $ ____________________

Utilities other than telephone ____________________

Total home office expenses $ ____________________

Answer 1

Answer:

Rent is $2400

utilities other than cellphone is $625

Total home office expenses is $3025

Explanation:

firstly we need to calculate the percentage of how much in total does the office take in the apartment so we will say (300 square feet/1200 square feet) x 100

which is 25% so then to get the rental expense of the office we will say :

25%x$9600 = $2400 we say 25% which is office space in the apartment multiplied by the total apartment rental to get the office rent expense.

Then for the utilities we will say 25%x$2500 = $625 we multiply like this because the office uses 25% of all the apartment utilities .

thereafter the total home office expenses is the sum  of both the rental office expense plus the the utilities other than telephone for the home office expense:

$625 + $2400 = $3025 then we get total home office expenses.