Alfredo Is Self-Employed and He Uses a Room in His

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Alfredo is self-employed and he uses a room in his home as his principal place of business. He meets clients there and doesn't use the room for any other purpose. The size of his home office is 600 square feet. The size of his entire home is 3,000 square feet. During the current year, Alfredo received $10,000 of gross income from his business activities and he reports $7,500 of business expenses unrelated to his home office. For his entire home, he reported $10,000 of mortgage interest, $2,000 of property taxes, $2,500 of home operating expenses, and $4,500 of depreciation expense. What amount of home office expenses is Alfredo allowed to deduct in the current year (assume he uses the actual expense method of computing home office expenses)? Indicate the amount and type of expenses he must carry over to next year, if any.

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Definitions:

PLCs

Programmable Logic Controllers, specialized computers used to control industrial machines and processes.

Input Device

A hardware or component that allows information to be provided to a computer or machine, such as a keyboard, mouse, or sensor.

Output Device

An apparatus that converts electrical signals into physical actions or representations, such as actuators, motors, or displays.

Actual Scan Time

The real time taken for a PLC to complete one cycle of reading inputs, executing the program, and updating outputs.