Since you own the vehicle, you should be allowed to take the standard mileage deduction in 2020. Lyft platform fees are a different type of expense and should not have any effect on this.
Please follow my input and see if yours differs in any way:
- Make and model: Nissan Sentra
- Type of vehicle: Auto under 6,000
- Start date: I used 1/1/15 as an estimate (based on your question description)
- There is no check in the box for the statement: I stopped using this vehicle in 2020
- Selected I own this vehicle
- Selected yes, it was available for personal use and yes, I had another vehicle available for personal use. You did not specify, but this is what I am assuming.
- Please note that you can answer yes to this question if this car belongs to a spouse, parent, sibling, roommate, or another person and would be willing to lend you their vehicle if you needed to run a personal errand.
- Selected yes I tracked my work miles.
- I entered the total miles driven in 2020 as 25,000 total miles and 10,000 business miles in 2020. This was an estimate.
- Double check that your total miles in the first box are greater than your business miles in the second box.
- Answered no, four or more vehicles were not used for work at the same time.
- Answered yes, I've taken the standard deduction for this vehicle.
- Answered yes, I'll take the standard mileage deduction.
- Did not enter any expenses.
After this point, I got a vehicle deduction on the next screen of my mock-up return.
Please comment back if you could not find any difference in input.
@jpeters0120
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