I have to do my own taxes this year, our usual tax preparer had a sudden family emergency. I have two questions, that somebody perhaps could help me with:
1) My company requires, that for every daily mileage expense submitted, I subtract the mileage from my house to the office. So, if it's 20 miles from home to the airport, and 25 miles to my office, I can't expense the trip from home to the airport. Does the same rule apply when claiming tax deduction for car expense ? I have made probably a few hundred trips to different sites and vendors from my home and couldn't expense them because the distance traveled was less than commute to office. 2) I didn't even request mileage expense reimbursement for most of the year - our management started to enforce the policy that mileage should be expensed within 3 months, or lost. In the past years, we could get away by submitting all prior mileage expenses around October, when things get a bit less crazy at work (usually I don't even go to lunch unless I need to meet with somebody). Can I still claim this unused reimbursement in my taxes ? Thanks !