If you work from home , either as an employee or independent contractor, you may be able to write off a portion of your home office expenses ...
for employees to calculate their work-from-home expenses, rather than having to keep detailed records of all their specific expenses and then apportion them by square footage. .
The recent Quebec tax case involved an electrical engineer who used a portion of his home in operating his business. Between 2011 and 2014, the taxpayer offered his services to a large Quebec-based engineering company that provides advisory services in mechanical engineering, electricity, sustainable development, structural and civil engineering.
Revenu Québec’s approach was to simply take the total exterior surface of his residence, which measured 44 feet by 28 feet, or 1,232 square feet , with a basement of the same size, for a total of 2,464 sf. The taxpayer used three rooms in his home exclusively for professional use. Those three rooms represented an area of 420 sf. Revenu Québec’s position, therefore, was that 17.05 per cent of the taxpayer’s home was used for work, so 17.
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