Taxes: Business use of vehicle

[Terence Miller]

Dear List:
  
  Let's say you're preparing your records for taxes. You turn to your  business mileage log and notice some holes in your notations...like  beginning mileage and no finish mileage, or mileages and no date. So  your record is slightly erratic.
  
  There's a good chance that you will be able to recreate your activities  if you cross check with your calendar, invoice book and business  receipts.
  
  If you do figure out what you did when, how do you get a good mileage estimate?
  
  
  Ah.
  
  Google Maps to the  rescue!               (maybe other map sites too.)
  
  www.google.maps
  
  
  click on       Get directions
  
  enter a        Start address
  and a          End address
  and then     Get Directions
  
  
  it will give you turn by turn directions, distance and estimated time
  
  (hmmm, nothing new here)
  
  BUT say you go more than one place.
  What if you have to go back to the shop, buy gas, go to the hardware  store, oops back to the shop again, and out to your final appointment?
  
  Click on        Add destination...
  type in the  address                        (or          Ace  Hardware  YourCity Your State) 
  and then       Get Directions
  
  do that for all the places you went
  click the     -      sign to collapse the directions
  and           drag  and  drop             the destinations to match the route (however crazy) you took. 
  
  as you get comfortable with this you'll find that you can zoom in on  the map to the right of the display, right click  and        Add a  destination           instead of typing everything.
  
  
  and there's your mileage.
  
  
  
  QED
  
  
  Terry Miller, RPT
  
  
  
  
       
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