Use of Home, More Than One Business

[CG]

Hi

A long established partnership claims for use of home by apportioning expenses on the number or rooms and hours used basis. One of the partners has started a completely separate business, also run from home.

Would he be able to claim simplified expenses for the number of hours he works on his new business at home?

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He'll have to adjust the partnership claim because the rooms are, presumably, no longer used exclusively for the partnership.

Will the expenses actually go up as a result of running a new business?