If you use your home as a home office, then any landscaping you do can technically be considered as a work expense. According to case precedent, if you meet clients at your home office than making it look good is tax deductible.
Again, ensure everything is reasonable — things such as a new driveway, walk-up steps or a ramp, and other necessities are less likely to get flagged than potted plants. But keep in mind, those necessities are different than improvements which are landscaping expenses incurred to add value to the home. The amount is limited to the proportion of your home that is used for business purposes.
Landscaping for rental properties you own is not tax deductible, because the IRS counts it as part of your capital investment. However, landscaping is depreciable as long as the land is closely and clearly associated with the rental property and has a useful life of at least one year.
You also may write off landscaping from your taxes if it is medically necessary. For example, if a medical professional determines you need to grade the land to make it accessible because you use a wheelchair, it is tax deductible. In other words, you have to sell your home before you qualify to take a landscaping tax deduction. The details of a landscaping tax deduction matter, as well. In a dream world, they would, but taxes are hardly something that would exist in a dream world, are they?
On planet Earth, however, a landscaping tax deduction only includes the major work: the installation of a landscape irrigation system , building walkways or adding a driveway, constructing fences or laying sod…the big stuff. And all of it must still exist at the time of the sale. In other words, if you sod your entire backyard and then rip it all up to install a pool and build a deck, the investment made in the sod no longer counts as a landscaping tax deduction.
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