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How to account for travel mileage!!

Can someone tell me what the rules are for proper accounting of travel mileage? If you go to work and travel to a work related location and back to work and then go home, I understand that you should be covered for the mileage from work to the work related location and back to work but not from home to work and from work to home. Now, what if you go from home to the work related location and back home and it is shorter than if you went from work, to the work related location, then back to work? Now, what if you go to the work related location and back home and it is longer than if you went from work, to the work related location, and back to work? What if you go to the work related location from home, back to work then back to home? Is there a general "rule of thumb"?

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Reply to
Eric Anderson
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Right.

That's like going directly to work - no deduction.

Doesn't matter. It's your personal choice to take that route, so it's your personal mileage and not deductible. Now, if your employer requires you to bring your car to work for some reason but doesn't pay your mileage, you might have somewhat of an argument. But others here will know about that better than I do.

Yeah, the rule of thumb is that whenever you drive directly from home to wherever you are working at the moment, it's personal, non- deductible mileage. Stu

Reply to
Stuart A. Bronstein

Correct.

No deduction, travel that starts or ends at your home is considered commuting. Therefore, if you travel directly between your home and a work site, it's commuting.

No deductible mileage. See above

Assuming you're going back to work to do meaningful work (i.e., not just driving through the parking lot to say you went there) then the mileage from the work-related location to work is deductible. The mileage to/from home is not.

You stated the rules in your first paragraph.

Reply to
San Diego CPA

You should check out the rules for accountable plans, if you are an employee. There is also an IRS publication that deals with your issues

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Benjamin Yazersky CPA

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