If you clean a room that is used 100% for your business then you can count all of the time spent cleaning the room as part of your time-space percentage calculation.

DanceMom - Your tax preparer is wrong. There is no limit to how many hours you can claim on business activities such as cleaning. Of course, you need to have records showing that you did this work. I once helped a provider who was audited and claimed that she worked 22 hours a week after the children were gone on various business activities (cleaning, cooking, etc.). She won because she had records showing that she did the work.

SilverSaver25 - Yes, do two months of carefully record keeping of all cleaning (business and personal). If you can say that these two months are representative of the rest of the year, use the average for these two months for the entire year. Yes, count 80% of the cleaning time when you are cleaning areas that were used by 5 business children and one of your own. That is reasonable.

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