Multiple PT jobs - what mileages can be deducted?

[kbald77]

I have 3 part time jobs that ask me to be in numerous places and I am having trouble figuring out what can be deducted. I'll list each below, if someone can help me sort this out.

1) Part time professor at a University. I drive in, and I know this is just considered commute and I don't believe I can deduct any of that. I receive a W-2 on this income.

2) Part Time tutor for a tutoring company. All administrative work on my end takes place in my home. I have to travel to multiple clients homes and receive a W-2 on this income.

3) Part Time figure skating coach. I do administrative work from the home but travel to 3 different Ice rinks to teach lessons and classes. I have to pay a rent fee at these locations. I am self-employed and have no income form, just my records.

Bonus: I often have to travel between these multiple times in one day (i.e. University --> Tutoring student --> University --> Skating Rink --> Tutoring student --> Home.

I can't figure out which of these mileages to use where, and which might already apply under the standard deduction and not really warrant including. I am especially confused when I am going in between jobs in the same day.

[MinhT1]

Mileage, even done for work, in the two jobs where you received a W-2 is not deductible. Commuting mileage is not deductible. Other mileage while doing your work is job-related mileage and is no longer deductible since 2018 as job-related expenses have been suspended by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

As for your self-employed work, all mileage relative to that work can be deducted except when you do from your home to that workplace, or from that workplace back home as these are commuting miles. 

[kbald77]

Just to confirm then:

If tutoring, even driving from one tutoring student to another to another cannot be deducted? I thought "commute" only mattered going to the first, not in between. Thought I very easily could be mistaken.

For the self employed skating: doing admin work at home and driving to a skating rink counts as commute and cannot be deducted?

If so... then basically everything is commute and no mileage really matters?

[MinhT1]

The answer to your 2 questions is Yes.

As you are an employee with the tutoring company, going from one tutoring location to the next is not deductible as it is job-related.

For the coaching work, going the a tutoring location to the skating rink would be business mileage and is deductible.