Office expense for rental properties business on schedule e

[jheathhuggins]

1.) My client has several rental properties.  It is the only thing she does for living.

2.) Proseris don't seem to have home office expense link to schedule e.

3.) Can i do home office expense worksheet, then put home office expense on sch e number 19 line A and states office expense (refer to home office WKS).

If there are other better way then let me know.  Only for schedule E, not schedule C.

Thank you

[TaxGuyBill · Accepted solution]

Yep, that works.  But there is no need to include the worksheet with the tax return.

You are correct, ProSeries does not have a way to link a worksheet to Schedule E.  As somebody else suggested earlier, you may want to create a 'mock' Schedule C to fill out the 8829 to get the numbers, then print it out and use the final number from that to put on your Schedule E.

[jheathhuggins]

I pretty much added 8829and did it manual and use simplified method.  I also put note on line 19 of sch e and stated home office expense (Refer to 8829)

[jheathhuggins]

Thank you TaxGuyBill