Wrong — even if Ronald McDonald himself is one of your clients. If you're a home-based independent contractor, then applying the rules as they are to you would be unfair to people who work out of separate business offices. After all, they don't get a mileage reimbursement when they leave home.
That's why, if your primary place of work is your home office, your first and last trips of the day count as commuting mileage. So if you want to get some business mileage out of a trip from home, go to a temporary work location first — like a client meeting site. Then you can go grab some nuggets with Szechuan sauce.
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