At what screen are you receiving this message? Have you tried to enter the vehicle expenses against self-employment income or W-2 income?
If you are reporting self-employment income, you may be able to:
- Deduct the actual costs of maintaining a vehicle that was used for business purposes, or
- Claim a standard mileage rate times the number of business miles recorded in a contemporaneous mileage log.
In TurboTax Online Self-Employed, to record vehicle expenses against self-employment income, follow these steps.
- Down the left side of the screen, click Federal.
- Across the top of the screen, click on Income & expenses.
- Under Your income and expenses, scroll down to Self-employment income and expenses.
- Click on Edit/Add to the right of Self-employment income.
- Click on Edit to the right of the business activity.
- At the screen Here’s your xxx info, click on Add expenses for this work.
- Click next to the expense Vehicle. Click Continue.
- To the right of Vehicle, click Edit.
- Answer the interview questions about business vehicle use.
See this TurboTax Help.
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