Home Offices and taxes

[Vagus]

Didn't really occur to me before, but I've never bothered to try and claim a deduction for the amount of work I do from home, which was traditionally on evenings, weekends, time spent waiting for deliveries, etc.  Now that I'll be spending a significant portion of the year working out of my house, I wonder what I should be thinking about.  I do all of my work on this i7 machine that cost me a bit of cash a few years back, as I intended it to be the media server and heart of the household IT flow.  I have an area of the basement where I'm set up for desk work and lab work, and purchased a new soldering iron and DC supply among some other odds and ends so that I didn't have to actually go in to the lab at my office.  I guess on the occasions when I do drive down in the middle of the day, mileage should be deductible too.

Any of you guys actually tracking this stuff who weren't before?

Its not too bad. I have a dedicated home office. You can also put a percentage of use on your computer. For me, it's like 50% work, 50% other work. 5% video games. 110% math.
But, right, you deduct maybe a hundred dollars or so.  Never been audited, but my risk is not zero.