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Business & farm
No. You can only deduct mileage if you keep a written log of your business miles otherwise you can't deduct mileage. Per IRS, you have to have adequate evidence. See https://www.irs.gov/publications/p463/ch05.html .
The IRS considers adequate evidence as a log of "who, what, when, and where" which may include the following:
- The cost of the car and any improvements,
- The date you started using it for business,
- The mileage for each business use,
- The total miles for the year.
- Date of the expense.
- Your business destination.
- Business purpose for the expense.
If you are self-employed (Schedule C), enter/edit your vehicle's mileage:
- Log on to TurboTax and click on the orange button, Take me to my return.
- Type vehicle expenses, self-employed business in the search/find box and click search.
- Click on Jump to vehicle expenses, self-employed business.
- Edit your business.
- At the 'Your xxxx Business' screen, scroll down to Business Expenses.
- Click start/update next to Business Vehicle Expense.
- Continue with the onscreen interview until you get to the 'How Do You Want to Enter Your Mileage for your vehicle'.
See the screenshot below.
‎June 6, 2019
4:40 AM