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A friend of mine accepted a retail management job with a nationwide company. By nature of the business, she initially had no "regular" work location assignment.

She was assigned to a temporary work location outside the metropolitan area of her tax home (55 mi away). After less than 1 yr, she accepted a permanent job at another location. Due to her work schedule/shift work, etc., she would spend about 2 nights a week at her mothers home near the temporary work location.

Question: Can she claim travel expenses for period of time she had a) no permanent work location, b) traveled regularly to a temporary work location that was c) outside her metropolitan area?

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tmlaff725
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Only travel from one workplace to another is deductible. Travel from your home to your workplace is not.

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" snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@a5g2000prg.googlegroups.com:

Usually my workplace is one location in New York City, and I walk from Penn Station to 23rd Str and First AVe. Sometimes I have to first go to the upper East Side, and I take the subway to get there. When I have to go to

23rd & First, I get reimbursed the taxifare for that leg of my travels.

Is the trip to the different location travel from home to workplace, or should I ask for reimbursement of the subway fare, or declare it as travel costs?

It is more a question about the principles involved, than real money, since I don't have enough expenses to get above the (how much) % AGI for itemized deductions anyway.

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Han

So on those days, you travel from home via Penn Station to UES, then to 23rd? The first trip is non-deductible commuting. (If you work at Penn Station, all trips between there and other workplaces are deductible.)

It's from home to workplace.

Seth

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snipped-for-privacy@panix.com (Seth) wrote in news:ftqq3s$7el$ snipped-for-privacy@reader2.panix.com:

That's what I thought.

Thanks!

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Han

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