CON_JOB wrote:

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Amend your 2004 return with Form 2106 (unreimbursed business
expenses) and Schedule A. If you take the Standard
Deduction, this extra mileage deduction would have no tax
benefit for you.

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Such mileage is considered "commuting", and not deductible.
If your subsequent employer did reimburse you for your trips
home they should have added the amount to your wages.

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The question is moot, as the mileage is not deductible.

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I was working for a company through most of 04 and to march
05 and they were paying me 0.33 cents per mile
reimbursment....I do satellite installs so i do a ton of
miles a day (100+). They told me I couldn't claim miles back
but now I find out that I could claim the difference since
the 2004 rate was 37.5

Also they did not pay me for trips home back from my last
job which sometimes could be 60 to 70 miles a day.

I have 2 questions.
1: Can I claim my miles from my last job of the day to my
home (my next employer DID pay me for trips home).

2: Since I did not make a milage log for those trips do I
have any legal right to request the information from my
employer to reconstruct those trips home, I know they keep
the paperwork on site at the office. (I was fired from that
job and I dont know if they will cooperate with this
request).

This may constitute a considerable amount of money for me
and would be thankful for any help...I went to HR block and
they didn't know.

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