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If you are using the rental car as your normal commute to and from work, then none of the expenses associated with your normal commute to and from work is deductible. Use the link below to see all of the rules.
Commuting expenses. You can’t deduct the costs of taking a bus, trolley, subway, or taxi, or of driving a car between your home and your main or regular place of work. These costs are personal commuting expenses. You can’t deduct commuting expenses no matter how far your home is from your regular place of work. You can’t deduct commuting expenses even if you work during the commuting trip.
Daily transportation expenses you incur while traveling from home to one or more regular places of business are generally nondeductible commuting expenses. However, there may be exceptions to this general rule. You can deduct daily transportation expenses incurred going between your residence and a temporary work station outside the metropolitan area where you live. Also, daily transportation expenses can be deducted if: (1) you have one or more regular work locations away from your residence or (2) your residence is your principal place of business and you incur expenses going between the residence and another work location in the same trade or business, regardless of whether the work is temporary or permanent and regardless of the distance.
You can deduct rental car expenses to commute to your 2nd jobs if you're working 2 jobs but you cannot deduct regular commuting expenses for your 1st job. You can deduct job expenses on IRS Form 2106. You can either deduct mileage or actual expenses for your travel but you cannot do both.
Only the cost of commuting to your 2nd job is deductible.
@SBERRY1100 wrote:
Only the cost of commuting to your 2nd job is deductible.
Employee business expenses, including mileage, are no longer deductible on a federal tax return due to the tax code changes for years 2018 thru 2025. Self-employed business expenses are still deductible on Schedule C.
I used a car rental to go to and from work can I claim that on my taxes
Not if you used it to commute to and from work, no.
If you drive for a living (like Uber or one of those) then yes.
If you own your own business, then yes.
But for driving to and from your job? No.
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