Barry Margolin <barmar[at]alum.mit.edu> wrote:

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If so, he can file now and the company will refuse because
it's too late.

Seth

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Barry Margolin <bar...[at]alum.mit.edu> wrote:
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And then there is my old company who required the following
to get reimbursed for car mileage: Fill out a company car
request form several days in advance, get your boss to sign
it, then get your department manager to sign it, then get
your division manager to sign it, then take it to the motor
pool at 7:00 a.m. on the required morning because all the
purchasing personnel will get all the company cars if you
don't get there early. If they did and there is no company
car, you can then apply for mileage reimbursement. Needless
to say, if the requirement to drive to another building,
plant site or outside location came up on short notice or
the departure time was not fixed well in advance, you took
your own car and didn't bother with the paperwork.

I wouldn't hesitate to deduct it.

Linda Dorfmont E.A., CFP, CSA
And former aerospace engineer

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Barry Margolin <barmar[at]alum.mit.edu> wrote:
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The IRS used to say that you couldn't take a casualty loss
if you had insurance but didn't file a claim. The courts
disagreed. Seems like a pretty analogous situation to me.

Stu

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"Passerby" <e...[at]mailexcite.com> wrote:

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Local job related travel between home and a temporary work
location is deductible if you have a local permanent job
location for the same job. Employers are NOT required to
reimburse you for all your deductible expenses. As you
describe it, you have a employee expense deductible on
Schedule A as a miscellaneous deduction subject to a 2% of
adjusted gross income reduction.

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In my opinion, yes.

You start on Form 2106 and carry the total of unreimbursed
expenses to Schedule A. Be aware, as noted above, your total
miscellaneous itemized deductions have to exceed 2% of AGI
before you get a tax benefit.

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"John D. Goulden" <jgoulden[at]okcu.edu> wrote:

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I always assumed that the non-reimbursement has to be
because the company refuses to reimburse employees for
the expense, NOT because you never bothered to submit
an expense report.

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Barry Margolin, barmar[at]alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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I wonder if the intent of that rule is to avoid paying
mileage on the commute from home to the office. However,
travel from home to a temporary place of work generally is
a deduction. If you did a lot of that and your employer
didn't reimburse you, you can probably deduct it on your
taxes. It's subject to the 2% floor so it's probably
better for you if your employer reimburses you. Here's a
fairly good page on travel deductions:

http://www.fool.com/school/taxes/taxes04.htm

I'm not sure what you mean by "unused reimbursement" in
part 2 there. If you have legitimate business-related
travel expenses that were not reimbursed by your
employer, you can deduct them on your taxes.

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John D. Goulden

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I have to do my own taxes this year, our usual tax preparer
had a sudden family emergency.

I have two questions, that somebody perhaps could help me
with:

1) My company requires, that for every daily mileage expense
submitted, I subtract the mileage from my house to the
office. So, if it's 20 miles from home to the airport, and
25 miles to my office, I can't expense the trip from home to
the airport. Does the same rule apply when claiming tax
deduction for car expense ? I have made probably a few
hundred trips to different sites and vendors from my home
and couldn't expense them because the distance traveled was
less than commute to office.

2) I didn't even request mileage expense reimbursement for
most of the year - our management started to enforce the
policy that mileage should be expensed within 3 months, or
lost. In the past years, we could get away by submitting all
prior mileage expenses around October, when things get a bit
less crazy at work (usually I don't even go to lunch unless
I need to meet with somebody). Can I still claim this unused
reimbursement in my taxes ?

Thanks !

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