Legal Question in Real Estate Law in California

can I as a tenant write off my rent tax wise is so.cal.?


Asked on 12/26/13, 11:19 am

2 Answers from Attorneys

Only if you are running a business out of your home and have a separate area that is used exclusively for the business, and even then you can only deduct the percentage of the space in the home that is exclusively used for business, and only to the extent it offsets income from that business.

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Answered on 12/26/13, 1:29 pm
Bryan Whipple Bryan R. R. Whipple, Attorney at Law

Rent for personal use is not a deductible expense, either in Southern California or anywhere else in the U.S.A.

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Answered on 12/27/13, 2:29 pm


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