Car Expense Deduction for Home

#3 03-29-2006, 08:29 AM

Since you have no fixed workplace,mileage to the first
customer in the metropolitan area where you do most of your
work is commuting.Travel to a second location is deductible.
Travel outside the area where you do most of your work is
also deductible.

Bob Bauer

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#2 03-29-2006, 08:29 AM

PD wrote:

- quote -

> - I have a small residential cleaning business.
> - I will be reporting income from the business on Schedule C
> - I rent, and take no home office deduction or depreciation
> for the business
> - Can I take a deduction for my mileage to and from clients'
> houses when I clean them?
> - I got the impression from the IRS help line that I can
> only count the mileage BETWEEN clients. So if I clean one
> house and return home, there's no mileage. However if I
> clean two houses, the travel between them is allowable but
> no other part of that travel. I had assumed that any travel
> related to conducting the business would be an expense of
> the business (regardless of how many houses I cleaned).

The IRS is correct. Only the distance from House #1 to
House # 2, etc and *not* back home from the last house.

Missy Doyle

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#1 03-29-2006, 07:51 AM

PD wrote:

- quote -

> - I have a small residential cleaning business.
> - I will be reporting income from the business on Schedule C
> - I rent, and take no home office deduction or depreciation
> for the business
> - Can I take a deduction for my mileage to and from clients'
> houses when I clean them?
> - I got the impression from the IRS help line that I can
> only count the mileage BETWEEN clients. So if I clean one
> house and return home, there's no mileage. However if I
> clean two houses, the travel between them is allowable but
> no other part of that travel. I had assumed that any travel
> related to conducting the business would be an expense of
> the business (regardless of how many houses I cleaned).

Assuming you have to transport the tools of your trade plus
supplies, such mileage is deductible. But if you merely go
to a customer's house and use their equipment and supplies,
then the answer is no, except of course between and among
various clients during the day.

ChEAr$,
Harlan Lunsford, EA n LA

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03-29-2006, 07:51 AM

PD wrote:

- quote -

> - I have a small residential cleaning business.
> - I will be reporting income from the business on Schedule C
> - I rent, and take no home office deduction or depreciation
> for the business
> - Can I take a deduction for my mileage to and from clients'
> houses when I clean them?
> - I got the impression from the IRS help line that I can
> only count the mileage BETWEEN clients. So if I clean one
> house and return home, there's no mileage. However if I
> clean two houses, the travel between them is allowable but
> no other part of that travel. I had assumed that any travel
> related to conducting the business would be an expense of
> the business (regardless of how many houses I cleaned).

Travel between your home and your place of work (first
client) is considered nondeductible "commuting", UNLESS you
have a valid home office.

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#-1 03-27-2006, 07:21 PM

- I have a small residential cleaning business.
- I will be reporting income from the business on Schedule C
- I rent, and take no home office deduction or depreciation
for the business
- Can I take a deduction for my mileage to and from clients'
houses when I clean them?
- I got the impression from the IRS help line that I can
only count the mileage BETWEEN clients. So if I clean one
house and return home, there's no mileage. However if I
clean two houses, the travel between them is allowable but
no other part of that travel. I had assumed that any travel
related to conducting the business would be an expense of
the business (regardless of how many houses I cleaned).

Thank you for your help,

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