I upgraded to self-employed after lumping all travel expenses under Charitable Contributions and see they could be separated (gas, hotels, etc.) there. Need to move?

[Vanessa]

What were the travel expenses for?  Charitable work?  Business?

[klmcgau]

Charitable work. It is a ministry organization and we travel to member churches, member pastors, ministry conferences, etc.  I entered the lump-sum info onto a screen entitled "Enter your mileage and travel expenses for Harmony International Ministries and described them as hotels, gas, meals and incidentals.

[Vanessa · Accepted solution]

As long as everything was able to be deducted as a charitable travel expense and too the SAME organization, then it is fine to leave them in one lump sum.  On the actual form 8283, it does not have it broke down into those details.  The breakdown is just to make it easier to make sure you are covering all the expenses and not forgetting any. 

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f8283.pdf