I started working for Instacart recently. They also just started a new pay system where we're paid for the shopping, and also for the mileage between the store and the customer. This is called a "payment" not a "reimbursement". A lot of other shoppers are spreading around the idea that now we can't write off our mileage anymore (at least from store to customer). I tried searching online for a definitive answer, but I came up mostly empty. Can anyone give some guidance on the definitive times you can write off mileage and when you can't? If the mileage is being paid directly into our regular income and not separated off as non-taxable reimbursement, that means we should still be able to write it off, right?
