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To decide if the miles is deductible, please follow:
-If your main place of business is your home, any time you leave the house for business is deductible. If your main place of business is an office in town, any time you leave that office for business is deductible.
-Commuting from home to the office downtown is not deductible.
-If you have an office in town, but go directly from home to the client's place of business, it's deductible. You don't need to go to the office first.
[Edited 3/1/2017]
To decide if the miles is deductible, please follow:
-If your main place of business is your home, any time you leave the house for business is deductible. If your main place of business is an office in town, any time you leave that office for business is deductible.
-Commuting from home to the office downtown is not deductible.
-If you have an office in town, but go directly from home to the client's place of business, it's deductible. You don't need to go to the office first.
[Edited 3/1/2017]
Wrong — even if Ronald McDonald himself is one of your clients. If you're a home-based independent contractor, then applying the rules as they are to you would be unfair to people who work out of separate business offices. After all, they don't get a mileage reimbursement when they leave home.
That's why, if your primary place of work is your home office, your first and last trips of the day count as commuting mileage. So if you want to get some business mileage out of a trip from home, go to a temporary work location first — like a client meeting site. Then you can go grab some nuggets with Szechuan sauce.
To deduct mileage, the home needs to be your "Principal Place of Business".
https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/rr-99-7.pdf
https://www.irs.gov/publications/p463/ch04.html
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