Expense deduction for rental

[dadwit4shorties]

I drove a rental van across the country in 2019 to my rental property.   Can I deduct the cost of rental van and all the other expenses along the way?  

[CatinaT1]

It depends.  Was the sole purpose of the trip to go to your rental property?  Did you use the trip as a vacation as well?  You can only deduct the percentage of cost associated with the rental.  If the trip was 100% rental related and no sight seeing or visiting friends and family along the way then you can deduct 100% of the costs.  If you combined business and pleasure, you would only deduct the percentage that was related to the rental property.

[dadwit4shorties]

Thank you Catina for replying!  Are costs associated with rental car (gas, tolls, hotels) deductible or just the actual charge for the rental car?  

[CatinaT1]

Gas, tolls and hotels would all be deductible.