DavidD66
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Self employed

Your mileage, if you have self-employment income from your work as a pastor, is deductible as business expense.  You cannot use that mileage to reduce the self-employment tax on your housing allowance.  I am not familiar with the "Denson Rule" so I cannot comment on that.

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