Question on 2nd job mileage

[ChrisCPA]

I have a client working fulltime during the day and a volunteer fire fighter at night. He does receive a small W-2 from the fire fighting. The taxbook says mileage between home and 2nd job is never deductible on a day off. So does that mean that mileage would be deductible when he goes on on fire calls at night when he worked all day at the first job? Of course we still have the 2% limitation of AGI but got caught up in the wording of this.

[veritas]

Volunteer firemen

in our neck of the woods are compensated for showing up for a call albeit a small amount. I would take the mileage from the one job to the fire station as business mileage. Mileage from home or elsewhere to the fire station I would take as charitable mileage.

[joanmcq]

To be deductible as biz mileage, you have to go straight from one job to the next. If you go home in between, the mileage is commuting.

[Jesse]

Another thought

Does he go to the directly to the site of the fire or to the station? If direct to fire couldn't they take any mileage in excess of what it would have been had they went to the station?

[ChrisCPA]

Here is what I am going to do. Mileage between job1 and the firehall will be deductible as biz mileage. Mileage between home the the fire hall will be charitable mileage. This fireman does get paid a stipend but it is so low that he is considered a volunteer. In any case the mileage is peanuts but the taxpayer is making a big deal of this.