Spread rent for the entire year over 2 years

You are right that this is not depreciation! The rent for a yoga studio for your professional activities is a normal professional expense that you can deduct immediately, but you will need to spread it over the two years to which it relates.

First, you enter the amounts as a regular expense, and then the expense will be fully recognised in 2025. After that, we will spread it out, a bit like depreciation, but slightly other. Because it is not an investment that you would normally spread out through depreciations.

You can spread the cost over two years by:

• Reports -> Income & expenses. Click on 'Manual input'.Add a line there in 2025 and select the cost category in question.

• Then enter the amount as negative because you want to remove this amount from 2025. You can optionally type a note here, which I would recommend doing so that you know what this was about later on.

• Then go to 2026 (edit the financial year at the top right) and do the same there. Only now you enter the amount as positive. This is how you add this cost in 2026. Again, add a note so that you will know later from where this manual added cost came from.

Voila, now you have spread that cost over 2 years :)

Great, thank you!