Don’t avoid the home-office deduction because of the taxes you fear when you sell the home.

First, it’s highly likely that the true tax bite on the sale of your office in the home will be zero or less.

Second, you need to avoid the one location that can create more taxes, but if you can’t avoid that location, you can still avoid the tax problem, as we explain.

The beating of recapture and capital gains taxes involves the same strategy for home-office deductions claimed by

proprietorships,

employees, and

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