I'm self-employed and use my vehicle partly for business use, partly personal. I've been doing this for years and am well-versed in what qualifies as business use. Until recently I didn't have "commuting" miles because I had no regular workplace I commuted to. Now I DO have a commute to a workplace... BUT, what's the point in keeping track of my commuting miles, since tax-wise they are identical to personal miles? Is there any downside to just entering tracking my qualified work miles, and treating everything else as personal miles, including my commute? (In other words, I enter my beginning and ending odomoter readings for the year, enter # of miles I tracked for work, and enter 0 for commuting.) Just want to know if there is any reason to go to the trouble to start tracking my commuting miles.
