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Setting Up an Office at Home Takes Thought

Wednesday August 30, 2006
Whether you're telecommuting as an employee or working at home running a home business, setting up your office requires some careful thought and planning. You need to consider not only issues with regard to functionality, lighting, and ergonomics, if you want to take a home office deduction on your federal income tax return there are other considerations you need to think through.

This article, from NBC's Today Show financial editor, Jean Chatzky provides some useful food for thought you can use for sound home office planning - both for create an effective environment in which you can work and in creating an environment that won't put your office-in-home tax writeoff in jeopardy.

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September 1, 2006 at 10:30 pm
(1) ced11 says:

I know exactly what you mean. I’ve been having trouble setting up my office at home. I don’t know where office desk goes and the pc and etc. One thing that makes it more complicated is the small space that I have. Maybe I should ran through those links give and see how it helps.

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