Deductions & credits

The short answer is no.

 

The IRS has two sets of rules, for travel and transportation.  Travel is traveling away from your tax home to work in another location that is distant enough that an overnight stay or longer is required.  Transportation is getting around from place to place in your tax home or wherever else you are working.

 

If you are self-employed, you may deduct travel and lodging expenses when you are working away from your "tax home" far enough that overnight travel is required, as long as the work way from your tax home is temporary (meaning expected to last and actually lasts less than 1 year).  If your assignment is expected to last more than one year, or if there is no particular exception of an end date, then it is not temporary and nothing is deductible.

 

Once you have traveled to your temporary work location, the transportation rules take over.  You can't deduct your daily commute (to and from your hotel or other lodging) and you can't deduct personal miles (food, entertainment, etc.) any more than you could when living and working at your tax home. 

 

See IRS publication 463 chapters 1 and 4.

https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-publication-463