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Simple answer: no. Getting to work, even for the self employed, is commuting and commuting is not deductible.
But if you go to 2 or more work sites (including your regular W-2 job) in a single day then the 2nd trip is deductible. For example you leave home drive 5 miles to the barista job then drive 10 miles to the a baby sitting job. At the end of the day you drive 15 miles home. Only the 10 miles between jobs is deductible. The first trip in the morning, from home and the last trip at night back home are considered commuting and are not deductible.
Maybe.
If your house qualifies as your "Principal Place of Business", the mileage would be deductible. If it doesn't qualify as your "Principal Place of Business", the mileage is not deductible.
Here is the sentence from the Law for what is a Principal Place of Business:
"the term “principal place of business” includes a place of business which is used by the taxpayer for the administrative or management activities of any trade or business of the taxpayer if there is no other fixed location of such trade or business where the taxpayer conducts substantial administrative or management activities of such trade or business".
Publication 587 also discusses it a bit more:
https://www.irs.gov/publications/p587/ar02.html#en_US_2015_publink1000226302
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