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Self employed
As an independent contractor, you have to consider where your main place of business is located. If you perform the majority of your work at the workplace you mentioned, then driving to and from the workplace is considered commuting miles and would not be deductible.
If you also maintain a qualified home office that is used regularly and exclusively for business and is your principal place of business where you conduct your administrative and management duties, and you have no other place where you conduct those duties, then your mileage would be considered to be going from one work location to another. However, just using your home computer from time to time would not be enough to claim a home office.
To learn more about claiming a home office, please take a look at the following TurboTax article:
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