My husband is an independent contractor for a tutoring company. He does all of his scheduling and reporting from home but drives to starbucks/student's home to tutor.

beckstephen — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 01:37:47 GMT

Does this count as commuting or business?

Since your husband is an independent contractor and has a...

DS30 — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 01:37:48 GMT

Since your husband is an independent contractor and has a home office, any miles driven to meet student or to do any tasks related to his self-employment income will be considered business miles.

As a self-employed contractor, he can claim a deduction for miles driven to a job assignment. The starting point must be his home office and the destination must also be a home, an office or a job location. He cannot deduct miles driven for other reasons even if you drove the same vehicle. The IRS requires you to take relatively straight routes from one location to another.

To deduct business miles for self-employed in TurboTax Online or Desktop, please follow these steps:

Once you are in your tax return, click on the “Business"” tab
Next click on “I’ll choose what I work on” (jump to full list)
Scroll down the screen until to come to the section “Business Income and Expense”
Choose “Profit or Loss from Business ” and select start/revisit/update.
If your business is already listed, choose to "edit"
You will eventually get to a screen titled "Your () Business"
Scroll down to Business Expenses and select "Business Vehicle Expense"

Please refer to this IRS link for more information about Business Expenses

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My husband is an independent contractor for a tutoring company. He does all of his scheduling and reporting from home but drives to starbucks/student's home to tutor.

Since your husband is an independent contractor and has a...