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Is this business operated primarily from the home, including any associated structure such as a garage or a barn?
Is the business in the residence, or in a free-standing structure outside, such as an unattached garage, barn, shed, or guest house?
Approximately how many square feet of space does the business portion occupy?
How many rooms are in the business portion?
Do you deduct the portion of your home used for your business as a business expense for federal income tax purposes?
Why don’t you deduct the business portion? Is it because it’s:?
Did you or do you require special zoning or land use permission to operate your business on the premises?
Has operating your business out of your home created severe, moderate, minimal, or no legal and regulatory problems for you?
In the last three years have your neighbors complained to you frequently, occasionally, infrequently or never about problems that they think your business causes them?
Do customers and vendors routinely enter your business?
How many employees, not counting yourself or others in your household, routinely spend the majority of their time at this business location?
Do you have a business sign or other identifying business markings on the entryway to, or on the business premises?
About how many years has your residence been the primary location for this business?
Do you have a home office that you use for business located in your primary residence?
Do you have a home office that you use for business located in a secondary residence?
How often do you use your home office?
Do employees, customers, or vendors enter that office to see you on a routine basis?
Does your home office occasionally double-up as an extra bedroom, play room, hobby room or a personal activity room of some nature?
Approximately how many square feet of space does your home office occupy?
How many rooms are in your home office?
Do you have business equipment such as a land-line telephone, desktop computer, fax, or copier located there?
Do you deduct your home office as a business expense for federal income tax purposes?
Volume 8, Issue 4, 2008 ISSN - 1534-8326
William J. Dennis, Jr. NFIB Research Foundation