repeat commuting question

[luke]

From another board - "had a customer tell me that as a union worker who works in the NY area he's allowed to take a deduction for his cummuting mileage. He was forceful in his belief that everyone at his union hall and any accountant and lawyer he talked to says it's fine. I told him it's just commuting miles and he stormed out. Was there something I missed."

[Dusty2004]

Commuting

From another board - "had a customer tell me that as a union worker who works in the NY area he's allowed to take a deduction for his cummuting mileage. He was forceful in his belief that everyone at his union hall and any accountant and lawyer he talked to says it's fine. I told him it's just commuting miles and he stormed out. Was there something I missed."

There have been numerous cases where preparers took these deductions and got thrown in jail. It is commuting. If someone else wants to put it as deductible let them.

Now - if they are working outside of their home area then it is deductible or if they have to go the the union hall before going to the work site the mileage from the union hall to the work site would be deductible. But they HAVE to be REQUIRED to go to the union hall.

Dusty

[Gene V]

as.

if they have to go the the union hall before going to the work site the mileage from the union hall to the work site would be deductible. But they HAVE to be REQUIRED to go to the union hall.

Dusty

TTB page 10-5

Union members. If a worker gets a work assignment at a union
hall and then goes to the work site, the costs of getting from the
union hall to the work site are nondeductible commuting.

[Dusty2004]

Gene:

Thank you very much! I missed that when I read that. We do not have that issue here where I am so I did not follow it close enough. Thank You Again!

Dusty