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The instructions cover eligibility requirements, including exclusive and regular use of a part of the home, principal place of business factors, and time versus importance comparisons. 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You are required to give us the information. We need it to ensure that you are complying with these laws and to allow us to figure and collect the right amount of tax.  \nThe time needed to complete and file this form will vary depending on individual circumstances. The estimated average time is: Recordkeeping, 52 min.; Learning about the law or the form, 7 min. ; Preparing the form, 1 hr. , 13 min.; and Copying, assembling, and sending the form to the IRS, 20 min.  \nIf you have comments concerning the accuracy of these time estimates or suggestions for making this form more simple, we would be happy to hear from you. You can write to both the IRS and the Office of Management and Budget at the addresses listed in the instructions for Form 1040.  \nGeneral Instructions Purpose of Form  \nUse Form 8829 to figure the allowable expenses for business use of your home on Schedule C (Form 1040) and any carryover to 1994 of amounts not deductible in 1993.  \nIf all of the expenses for business use of your home are properly allocable to inventory costs, do not complete Form 8829. These expenses are figured in Part III of Schedule C and not on Form 8829.  \nYou must meet specific requirements to deduct expenses for the business use of your home. Even if you meet these requirements, your deductible expenses are limited. For details, get Pub. 587, Business Use of Your Home.  \nNote: If you file Schedule F (Form 1040) or you are an employee or a partner, do not use this form. Instead, use the worksheet in Pub. 587.  \nWho May Deduct Expenses for Business Use of a Home  \nGenerally, you may deduct business expenses that apply to a part of your home only if that part is exclusively used on a regular basis:  \n1. As your principal place of business for any of your trades or businesses; or  \n2. As a place of business used by your patients, clients, or customers to meet or  \ndeal with you in the normal course of your trade or business; or  \n3. In connection with your trade or business if it is a separate structure that isnot attached to your home.  \nIn determining whether a business location in your home qualifies as your principal place of business, you must consider the following two factors:  \n1. The relative importance of the activities performed at each business location; and  \n2. The amount of time spent at each location.  \nA comparison of the relative importance of the activities performed at each business location depends on the characteristics of each business. If the nature of your business requires that you meet or confer with clients or patients, or that you deliver goods or services to a customer, the place where that contact occurs must be given a greater weight in determining where the most important activities are performed. Performance of necessary or essential activities at the business location in your home (such as planning for services or the delivery of goods, or the accounting or billing for those activities or goods) is not controlling.  \nIn addition to comparing the relative importance of the activities performed at each business location, you should also compare the amount of time spent on business at each location. The time consideration is particularly significant when a comparison of the importance of the activities performed at each business location does not clearly identify the location of your principal place of business. This may happen when you perform income-producing activities at both your home and some other location.  \nException for storage of inventory.—  \nYou may also deduct expenses that apply to space within your home if it is the only fixed location of your trade or business. 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