"commuting" mileage

[Jon Page]

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Ever since I've been in filing taxes based on self employment, the mileage 
deduction
has been calculated 80% business, 20% personal.

This flat rate has never been challenged by the IRS. Although my personal 
use of the vehicle
is probably less than 20%, it's worth it not having to nit-pick the daily 
odometer reading.

Jon Page


At 09:17 PM 12/16/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Terry,
>
>Like you, my piano service office is in my home.  I keep a logbook, and any
>mileage that is business related is logged as a business expense.  That
>necessarily includes transporting my tools and supplies to the jobsite 
>(and home
>after the last tuning, too), so mileage from my home to the first job is 
>also a
>business expense.  When Phil Bondi says that mileage can't be counted, I would
>say in his defense that such was the case a couple years ago for a short time,
>maybe a year or two, but not anymore (according to my CPA).
>
>If while working during the day I make a side trip that is personal, I make a
>fair estimate of how much mileage cannot be considered business and reduce the
>daily figure by that amount.  I hope I am making myself clear.
>
>Regards,
>Clyde Hollinger, RPT
>Lititz, PA, USA
>
>pianolover 88 wrote:
>
> > Since I, like most of you, claim a percentage of my residence as an
> > office/workshop, (to claim as a business expense) I am allowed to deduct
> > mileage FROM my house, to every work related job, at 34.5 cents per 
> mile. Of
> > course there WILL also be "personal" use mileage, but what about 
> "commuting"
> > mileage? Since my home IS also my business address, then when will 
> commuting
> > come in? I suppose if I was somewhere OTHER than home for a visit to a
> > friend or whatever, and I left FROM that place TO a job, then that would be
> > considered "commuting" miles, but for the most part, It seems to me 
> that the
> > vast majority of TOTAL mileage for each year, will be "business" miles, and
> > "personal", with very little "commuting" miles. Am I wrong here? Love 
> to get
> > everyone's thoughts on this matter.
> >
> > Terry

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