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I worked for shiftgig as a contractor

 I worked for an app called Shiftgig where you pick up different shifts for different businesses, I got paid thru the app but never received 1099 at the end of the year! My question is can I deduct mileage from home to work location since I was basically an independent contractor to go to work to these places? 

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RobertG
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I worked for shiftgig as a contractor

It depends.  Here is what the IRS says:

 

If you have no regular place of work but ordinarily work in the metropolitan area where you live, you can deduct daily transportation costs between home and a temporary work site outside that metropolitan area.

 

Generally, a metropolitan area includes the area within the city limits and the suburbs that are considered part of that metropolitan area.

 

You can’t deduct daily transportation costs between your home and temporary work sites within your metropolitan area. These are nondeductible commuting expenses.

 

If you have one or more regular work locations away from your home and you commute to a temporary work location in the same trade or business, you can deduct the expenses of the daily round-trip transportation between your home and the temporary location, regardless of distance.

 

IRS Publication 463 

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