Self employed

@AliciaP1 @ndc24075 - here is the problem with that advice.  

 

The points were never declared as income, so to turn around and charge some of the points to the business and take a deduction is problematic.  

 

the IRS has been clear for many, many years that the points are not taxable income,   So they can't be an expense in the manner suggested in the original post. 

 

Since the business (presumably) is "cash based" you must have a third party receipt showing the cash paid for the travel costs.  In this case any receipt is going to show zero.