Business mileage

[solomon]

Don't

count on that liberal view standing on an audit.

[Jiggers]

Business Mileage or Commuting????

Look at the chart on page 10-2 of TTB.

If the taxpayer has a regular main job away from home, then mileage from home to a temporary work location is deductible, and then mileage from that temporary work location to the regular main job is deductible.

I would say any location for work, such as the post office, office supply store, customer location, etc. is a temporary work location.

Looking at this chart, then my mileage to the post office on the way to my office from my home is fully deductible and not commuting. Or my mileage to a client on the way to my office from my home is fully deductible and not commuting. Or if I stop at the donut shop on the way to my office from my home to buy donuts for the office staff is fully deductible and not commuting. Or if I stop at Wal-Mart or Supermarket on the way to my office to buy supplies for my office is fully deductible and not commuting.

Great! You learn something everyday. Thanks TTB and Bees Knees!

[Bees Knees]

Look at the chart on page 10-2 of TTB.

If the taxpayer has a regular main job away from home, then mileage from home to a temporary work location is deductible, and then mileage from that temporary work location to the regular main job is deductible.

I would say any location for work, such as the post office, office supply store, customer location, etc. is a temporary work location.

[oceanlovin'ea]

Massage therapist rented an office for her work. Actually worked in a chiropractors office for a few months and did some in-home massages. Then she opened office in May and was a sole proprietor until middle of August. (Don't people know what it does to accounting to change entities in the middle of a month!)

Then she incorporated her business. Now is a s corporation.

Since she has an office, her drive to the office every day is not business miles.But any time she goes to the bank or to get supplies, etc, she has business miles. But if she leaves her home in the morning and on the way to the office she stops at the post office and picks up her mail, doesn't that change the circumstances? Doesn't she get to count some of the mileage as business? Where does the business miles take over?

Would the circumstances be different when she was sole prop and when she became corp? Corporation will reimburse her for mileage each month. We will set it up to do that.

I know this is a simple question, just can't think at the moment.

Thanks.