Salaried Employee Works From Home - Can he Claim House Expenses?

pinkmanwhite wrote: ↑ For the tax experts out there.....

My husband is a salaried employee with a corporation. He doesn't have an office and actually works from home each day (with the exception of the occasional meeting where he goes to the company's head office). The company covers our internet bill because he has to have a whole office set up and they give him a blackberry for calls. My question is, is there somewhere on the tax return that we can claim additional expenses related to the house? Since he started working from home I've noticed that both our gas and electricity have gone up because he's home all day. We now have to keep the heat on all day and use electricity. Logically, it seems like we should be able to claim something but tax laws don't always follow logic...... A few years back when he was business for self, we claimed a portion of everything since his office was in our home. I'm just not sure if there's any mechanism within the tax return to do the same thing (to a certain extent) for a salaried employee.

Thanks for any input

IMHIP2 wrote: ↑ Snip from link provided by AlexS748

"You also have to use it on a regular and continuous basis for meeting clients, customers, or other people in the course of your employment duties."

If he meets this criteria then yes, a portion of some home expenses (based on square footage 120/2000 or # of rooms 1/8) can be deducted

grisensko wrote: ↑ Can someone clarify this for me please:

I have been told that if I Deduct part of my home for an office, then if in the future I sell my house, I would need to pay tax on that portion of the gain.

Thanks

sr79 wrote: ↑ http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tx/tchncl/ncmt ... 2-eng.html

2.59 It is the CRA’s practice not to apply the deemed disposition rule, but rather to consider that the entire property retains its nature as a principal residence, where all of the following conditions are met:

a) the income-producing use is ancillary to the main use of the property as a residence;
b) there is no structural change to the property; and
c) no CCA is claimed on the property.

pinkmanwhite wrote: ↑ For the tax experts out there.....

My husband is a salaried employee with a corporation. He doesn't have an office and actually works from home each day (with the exception of the occasional meeting where he goes to the company's head office). T

sr79 wrote: ↑ ONE of the following


Also, you must meet one of the following conditions:

The work space is where you mainly (more than 50% of the time) do your work.
You use the work space only to earn your employment income. You also have to use it on a regular and continuous basis for meeting clients, customers, or other people in the course of your employment duties

peelhic wrote: ↑ If your husband's company pays for the internet, remember that you should be claiming this as a taxable benefit for the portion that you use for personal use. That's assuming you use it for personal use after business hours. For non-contractor type roles that work from home the T2200 does very little for you as a previous poster mentioned.

Beachdown wrote: ↑ What others have said. His employer has to provide a T2200. He can deduct partial expenses, based on the size of a dedicated office, hours worked, etc.

I work at home 4 days a week and when all is accounted for, I would have about $50 in deductions (1/3 of 10% of utility bills). So it's not a huge amount of money generally speaking.

chumba wrote: ↑ So to add to this, im in a similar situation working from home f/t salaried, but i travel once or twice a month to corporate offices for meetings if needed, which is like 6 hrs away.. would i be able deduct a portion of gas and/or car maintenance, meals during these times (ie travel expenses)? I do have a t2200. Thanks!!