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<font size=3>Ever since I've been in filing taxes based on self
employment, the mileage deduction<br>
has been calculated 80% business, 20% personal.<br>
<br>
This flat rate has never been challenged by the IRS. Although my personal
use of the vehicle <br>
is probably less than 20%, it's worth it not having to nit-pick the daily
odometer reading.<br>
<br>
Jon Page<br>
<br>
<br>
At 09:17 PM 12/16/2001 -0500, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite cite>Terry,<br>
<br>
Like you, my piano service office is in my home. I keep a logbook,
and any<br>
mileage that is business related is logged as a business expense.
That<br>
necessarily includes transporting my tools and supplies to the jobsite
(and home<br>
after the last tuning, too), so mileage from my home to the first job is
also a<br>
business expense. When Phil Bondi says that mileage can't be
counted, I would<br>
say in his defense that such was the case a couple years ago for a short
time,<br>
maybe a year or two, but not anymore (according to my CPA).<br>
<br>
If while working during the day I make a side trip that is personal, I
make a<br>
fair estimate of how much mileage cannot be considered business and
reduce the<br>
daily figure by that amount. I hope I am making myself clear.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Clyde Hollinger, RPT<br>
Lititz, PA, USA<br>
<br>
pianolover 88 wrote:<br>
<br>
> Since I, like most of you, claim a percentage of my residence as
an<br>
> office/workshop, (to claim as a business expense) I am allowed to
deduct<br>
> mileage FROM my house, to every work related job, at 34.5 cents per
mile. Of<br>
> course there WILL also be "personal" use mileage, but what
about "commuting"<br>
> mileage? Since my home IS also my business address, then when will
commuting<br>
> come in? I suppose if I was somewhere OTHER than home for a visit to
a<br>
> friend or whatever, and I left FROM that place TO a job, then that
would be<br>
> considered "commuting" miles, but for the most part, It
seems to me that the<br>
> vast majority of TOTAL mileage for each year, will be
"business" miles, and<br>
> "personal", with very little "commuting" miles.
Am I wrong here? Love to get<br>
> everyone's thoughts on this matter.<br>
><br>
> Terry</font></blockquote></html>