<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Will Truitt <<a href="mailto:surfdog@metrocast.net">surfdog@metrocast.net</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div> <p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">If it is too much trouble for someone to keep records, then simply do not claim your mileage as a deduction.  Or if you do, be able to substantiate it to the satisfaction of the IRS. </span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It's pretty easy to keep mileage logs. I use my PDA.  First, create an Excel (or similar) spreadsheet. (I do one for each month.)  Enter the date, start and finish mileage, and the purpose for business travel.  The spreadsheet calculates the total mileage for both the day and the entire month.  </div> <div><br></div><div>It's pretty simple to then add up 12 months worth of mileage and get your annual total.  I guess some people on the list can even do that in binary.  I personally just use regular old numbers. ;-)</div> <div><br></div><div>--</div><div><br></div><div>JF</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>