Hello everyone. I work from home office and meet with
clients in the field few times a week. In 2017, I had a company car through my
ex-employer which was leased through a third party. I left the company few
months ago and I just recently received
an email from HR that the calculated personal use for this car is around 6k for
9 months. I drove the car for about 18K miles in 2017 and almost 90% is for
business use. The leasing company forgot to ask me for personal and business
miles. Since they didn’t have any record, the simply put all of the miles on
the car under personal use. This ends up in almost 6k in fringe benefits that
will be reported on my W2 for 2017.
Now, they have told me that I can take exemptions for personal
miles on my taxes. Since I didn’t own/lease the car under my name, am I allowed to
claim business miles on company car. I will have all the records of my business
usage and personal usage for the miles driven on company car.
