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IRS "rules" on mileage reimbursements
Jun 08, 2007
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I think the key question here is what, exactly, is the location of your "regular or main job". It sounds like it may be your home rather than the head office. The IRS has a summary of the rules regarding employees' deductible transportation expenses at
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may be helpful to you. The same information can befound in Publication 17. Based on the facts and circumstances as you present them, it seems like travel from your home office to a client location would be entirely deductible. To the extent your employer does not reimburse these expenses, you may want to consider deducting them as unreimbursed employee expenses on Schedule A of your Form 1040 as a miscellaneous expense.
-Crystal
I think the key question here is what, exactly, is the location of your "regular or main job". It sounds like it may be your home rather than the head office. The IRS has a summary of the rules regarding employees' deductible transportation expenses at
formatting link
may be helpful to you. The same information can befound in Publication 17. Based on the facts and circumstances as you present them, it seems like travel from your home office to a client location would be entirely deductible. To the extent your employer does not reimburse these expenses, you may want to consider deducting them as unreimbursed employee expenses on Schedule A of your Form 1040 as a miscellaneous expense.
-Crystal
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