At 11:13 AM 10/26/2005 -0500, you wrote: >Scenario: >You are a beginning technician (~2 yrs) >You are called to do a service call on a piano that is in a church that is >approximately 80 miles away. >Do you; >A) Charge for mileage for the one way distance (82 miles)? >B) Charge for mileage for the round trip distance (164 miles)? >C) Don't charge for mileage at all? > >I realize that a church may or may not fall into the category of doing >work at a discount rate. > >Also, how do you record the mileage for the ordinary tuning/repair >trips you make throughout the year? (for tax purposes) >Do you include round trip mileage or just one way? > >Thank you > >Mark Montbriand Both ways, unless it is all downhill so's you can coast home or you are beaming yourself and all your equipment back. ;-} Would that be frequent flier miles?? All business miles: to, from and in between. Write down odometer readings at start and end of business trips/day in some sort of log. Do the math. Charge accordingly. Conrad Hoffsommer I tried to get a life once, but they were all out of stock.
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