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That's probably a better question for someone like @SoapQueen1, @AnOminous, or @Beetus Knuckles. My understanding is that he can, but it needs to be clearly delineated. That delineation is what's going to fuck him up a lot, because he has commingled his personal and business expenses to such an extent that it will be difficult to separate them. That also doesn't include shit like game-sharing with Kat. The fact that she uses his Switch and plays Animal Crossing on it means that both of those are not purely business expenses.
I honestly don't know how assiduously bankruptcy enforces stuff like this. The IRS does. If you claim a "home office" and they catch you doing ANYTHING personal in there they will fuck you out of the whole thing and every deduction you claim. They will demand to see it and it better be obviously a segregated area that serves a specific purpose, and not just shit you use for your own personal stuff.
The home office deduction is great and you can buy some pretty neat stuff with it, and even better, deduct the entire price of a lot of things by depreciating them to nothing all at once instead of over several years, effectively getting them tax free. But they're well on to the trick of just using it for personal shit.
I honestly don't know how strict a bankruptcy court is about such things. However, Phil did straight up commit perjury claiming every single one of those things was pure business when he has just as publicly admitted they're actually used by Kat, used by him for personal stuff, and they just aren't pure business. He just commingles that shit, and then he went into court and lied about it under oath. Not a good look.