Originally Posted by
Scissor Queen
One of the biggest red flags for the IRS is the business deduction of a "home office." The regulation says "regularly and *exclusively*" for business use. Any personal use and it's not deductible for business use. And that's just one of the reasons I wouldn't do that tax return.
So true. Not worth a few bucks to start an argument you can't win. Before you know it you're a sitting duck looking down the barrel of an IRS shotgun, and that is not a good place to be. A lot easier for them to pick on things like this than try to bring down Enron!