@DaveF1006 wrote:
...In your case, August 8-13 are full days as illustrated in the IRS link.
That's the way I was reading it ... since the first and last day weren't "full" from 0:00 to 0:00, I have to toss them out, and I can only count 6 "full days."
As far as days spent on business, the IRS isn't specific on this....
Exactly! Consistently applying their same 'midnight to midnight equals a full day' rule, the business portion of August 9 - 13 would only come to 3 full days, whereas by ordinary reckoning, I would think of it as 5 days.
I'll write down "5 days," which is what you seem to be suggesting.
I'm doing my own taxes online this year and wouldn't have thought much about it, but I was looking back over prior-year tax returns done by a CPA, and I noticed his way of counting didn't seem to match the way of counting shown in the IRS example. Even a tax pro can be confused by IRS wording.
If the IRS had a reputation for being more forgiving, I wouldn't think much about such little things.
Thank you.
