Car mileage

[Bees Knees]

Quote from Bees:

It depends on how long this employee will be going to this other location.

TTB, page 10-2 shows that if the taxpayer has a regular place of business, then any miles between home and a temporary location are deductible, provided the temporary location is expected to last one year or less.

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Bees, I was just trying to point out that the one year or less rule does not apply for job location to job location transportation in this situation. Sorry, but the quote above is yours and I respectfully disagree with it.

Please re-read my quote…I said “then any miles between home and a temporary location…."

I never said the temporary rule applies to job to job miles.

What tweaks my interest is that the pub implies to me that the mileage home from the 2nd job is also deductable. Otherwise, why would the IRS say that on the days you don't go to the main job, the mileage home from the 2nd job is not deductable? Kind of implies that on the days you DO go the the main job also, the mileage home from the 2nd is deductable. That surprises me, but when you think of it, a return trip to the main office would be deductable. Or if the 2nd location took you further from home than the main office, maybe it seems that some of the extra mileage ought to be deductable.

No.

The Pub says: “If you work at two places in one day…”

Stop right there…note it says “if you work at two places in one day….”

That means it is talking about days in which you work at two different locations in one day.

Then it says “you can deduct the expense of getting from one workplace to the other.”

Note again it is talking about getting from one job location to the other. It says nothing about going home and deducting those miles.

It continues…”However, if for some personal reason you do not go directly from one location to the other…”

Stop right there…note it is still talking about going from one job location to another. Not going home. Just going from one job location to another…but kind of going the long route.

Then it says…”you cannot deduct more than the amount it would have cost you to go directly from the first location to the second.”

There is the key. You only get job to job miles. That is what it says. If for some reason you go out of your way on those job to job miles, you still only get job to job miles.

Nothing more.

What tweaks my interest is that the pub implies to me that the mileage home from the 2nd job is also deductable. Otherwise, why would the IRS say that on the days you don't go to the main job, the mileage home from the 2nd job is not deductable?

You are reading too much into that statement. It is true. On days where you don’t go to the main job, it says you cannot deduct the miles going from home to the second job. But it also says on days where you work at two different locations, you get to deduct the job to job miles. Nothing more. If it meant you get to deduct mileage from the second job to home, it would say that. But it doesn’t.

[outwest]

Thanks Bees

I think we were more on the same page than I first thought. That reference to the one year rule on the original response confused me.

Though I have to admit that the cranky side of me got to thinking this board could use someone to take the devils' advocate position just as a foil to those that give the standard unsupported "no you can't". (Not accusing you, BTW)

But I don't really care to argue just for fun. And I think those just looking for an answer would get tired pretty quick. Sigh.. bad idea I guess.

Thanks again,

Doug

[veritas]

Though I have to admit that the cranky side of me got to thinking this board could use someone to take the devils' advocate position just as a foil to those that give the standard unsupported "no you can't


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