What are administrative or management activities?

Many tasks are considered administrative or managerial. Here are a few examples:
  • Billing customers, clients, or patients.
  • Keeping books and records.
  • Ordering supplies.
  • Setting up appointments.
  • Forwarding orders or writing orders.
You can still claim your home office:
  • Someone else handles your administrative or management work at a location outside your home (for example, a company does your bookkeeping at their office).
  • You do administrative or management work in temporary places, like your car or a hotel room.
  • You sometimes do a small amount of administrative or management work at a fixed location that isn't your home.
  • You do other types of business work (not administrative or management) outside your home.
  • You have another suitable place to do administrative or management work, but you choose to use your home office instead.

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