charge for time?

[Cy Shuster]

MessageIt's kind of you to consider if you're double-billing, but you're 
not.  Maybe you're thinking of the IRS rule that says you can deduct either 
actual auto expenses (tracking them all year), or the mileage, but not both.

As far as the customer goes, you're simply billing for an extra service, 
just like, say, coming in on a weekend for a concert, or moving other 
appointments for an emergency situation.  Think of it more like billing for 
your travel time, when you could be tuning elsewhere.

You can set the rate according to whether you want out-of-town business, or 
not.  I just find that mileage is an easy (and fair) concept for customers 
to accept, and since I'm still growing my business, I'm not at the point of 
charging for my time when I travel.

--Cy--
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Geoff Sykes
  To: 'Cy Shuster' ; 'Pianotech List'
  Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 11:43 PM
  Subject: RE: charge for time?


  At the end of the year I deduct all my business miles, as a business 
expense, at whatever the governments going rate is for that year. I can't 
believe that it's possible to both charge the customer for those miles and 
then deduct them as well. Is it? I would think that it's either one or the 
other. Which one benefits us the most?

  -- Geoff Sykes
  -- Assoc. Los Angeles