TeresaM
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Get your taxes done using TurboTax

 

In the Self-Employed version of Turbo Tax

Click on the Federal Taxes tab

Click on Income and Expenses

You may see a prompt for Self-Employment, but if not

Click on Check for More Income and See All Income

Scroll down to the Self-Employment section with the blue person icon

Click on Show More

And Start or Edit

Scroll down past Expenses line and click on the blue

Add More Expenses for this work button

Click on the blue triangle next to Less Common Expenses

for legal and professional fees, commissions and much more.

You can enter this expense as Commissions paid to your rideshare company.  TurboTax provides the option to type in a description, so you can indicate what exactly they are.

Note: As a business owner or self-employed individual, you can enter either the standard mileage rate or the actual cost method, which tracks what you paid for gas and maintenance.

To use the standard mileage rate, you must keep a log of each trip with miles driven during the first year your vehicle is used for business. After that, you can either go with standard mileage or actual cost (unless you lease, in which case you must stick with standard mileage for the duration of the lease).

To enter vehicle related expenses

Add More Expenses for this work button

Click on the circle for Vehicle Expenses

Click on Continue at the bottom

The vehicle expenses have a series of questions and you can choose to use either a cost per mile or use the actual costs for the vehicle (including gas) and the next page has tolls and parking.

 

click here for more tax tips for drivers

 




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