second job mileage deduction

I drive a school bus AM and PM. After AM run I come back home and run my small business, then back to my PM bus run.

I am told the mileage to and from my second job - my small business - is deductable.

Is this true???

JJ

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cjack
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To my mind, this is commuting mileage, and is not deductible. Commuting mileage is traveling from your home to any of your jobs and back. If your second job took place in a location other than your home, and you drove directly from the AM bus to your second job location without going home, then the mileage would be deductible as a Schedule C expense. And driving from the second location to your PM bus would be deductible as an un-remimbursed employee expense subject to the 2% of AGI rule. But because the second job is also in your home, I don't think you get any deduction. But I really need to to think about this -- could easily be wrong. Let's see what other say...

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"cjack" wrote

It would be true if you had mileage between jobs, but it appears to me that you don't.

Reply to
paulthomascpa

No, because you returned home.

The mileage is deductible only when you proceed from one job directly to the other.

Reply to
D. Stussy

But that's what he did.

His second business is in his home, so he's travelling between the two jobs.

Seth

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Seth

What keywords can we use to search in

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I tried "commuting" but there were too many hits.

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removeps-groups

I saw nothing in the OP that said he operated a business out of home. He said he incurred mileage between his home and his second job. If he is regularly going to a second job to and from his home, that is commuting. More facts would be needed to make any determination.

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Alan

I thought his post was pretty clear:

AM: travel from home to bus job. drive bus return home to run his second business (out of his home, else why would he return there?)

PM: leave his home/second business and return to bus job drive bus return home for the night.

sounds like he is commuting from home to his bus job. sounds like he is incurring miles from his first job (bus) to his second job (happens to be in his home).

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Wallace

The mere statement that he returns home to run his business is not enough to say that his mileage is not commuting. It would not be commuting as long as his home meets the test of being his "principal place of business" and the job he travels to is in the same trade or business for which he operates the home office. This has not been established. That is why I said more information is required.

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Alan

Thank you for now stating WHAT more information is required.

Are you saying he has to drive a bus at his house to qualify?

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Wallace

business -

commuting.

His home doesn't count as a business location for the purpose of mileage between jobs.

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D. Stussy

On 1/30/10 8:37 AM, Wallace wrote:[snip]

No, that is not what the law says. E.g., if you establish a home office to run your law practice, then mileage from your home to wherever you go practicing law is deductible. If you also drive a school bus in the AM & PM, then that mileage is commuting.

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Alan

Why not?

His work day goes:

Home to job 1 (commuting) Drives a school bus Job 1 to Job 2 (business travel between jobs) Works at job 2 (building widgets for sale) Job 2 to job 1 (business travel between jobs) Drives a school bus Job 1 to home (commuting)

Does it make a difference whether job 2 is at a rented building next to his house, or a room in his house (in either case, that's the only place he does job 2)? Why?

Seth

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Seth

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