You have an office in your home that qualifies for the home-office deduction.

You also have a cleaning lady. She cleans your home, including your home office.

Payments

You pay your cleaning lady (let’s call her Annie) $200 every two weeks. That’s $5,200 for the year.

Your office is 15 percent of your home. So, for the year, you pay Annie $780 to clean your office and $4,420 to clean your home.

Two Questions

For office cleaning, do you pay Annie on a W-2 or ... Log in to view full article.