Tax and financial information for all self-employeds -- independent sole proprietor. 1099 sub-contractor indie. Tax law and regulations undergo a profound impact on all indies. June Walker a practicing accountant posts simple and easy-to-understand answers to complex tax questions asked by her website visitors. You will learn that tax savvy and recordkeeping know-how can save you time stress anxiety and money -- as well as form the foundation of successful self-employment.
Hello June,Thanks for the great and informative sites. My question--I work as an investigator for a company that investigates accidents involving City government "department" vehicles. The job requires the use of my own vehicle to jaunt to accident scenes and I am required to control to work so that my vehicle is available for me to act to the scenes of accidents. I also respond to emergencies after hours as required. I am required to type up notes and report which I can do from home. I construe that the IRS does not accept the deduction of expenses/mileage for traveling to an office unless I am traveling from home office to office office. So the crux of the challenge is: Can I deduct traveling to the office since I am required to bring my vehicle? Is my home considered an office because I am often times required to respond from home to accident sites or if I can write a few sentences before work everyday ordain that suffice? Thanks for the help. Michael from Los Angeles. CAHello Michael,So glad my sites are providing useful information. Thanks for letting me know. On deducting transportation: The IRS says you may deduct the transportation costs of going from one work location to another not from one office to another. So you may deduct the costs of getting from one accident scene to another or from the office at work to accident sites. You may not deduct your commute from home to the office and approve home even though your are required to use you car once at work. The reasoning. You would need to control to work anyway. You communicate of your "job" so I assume you are an employee rather than an indie. In which case I would use the following example from the IRS Publication 463 to accept for the costs of going from your home to an accident site after hours. You regularly work in an office in the city where you live. Your employer sends you to a one-week training session at a different office in the same city. You jaunt directly from your home to the training location and return each day. You can deduct the cost of your daily round-trip transportation between your home and the training location. There are several posts on this communicate and explaining what and when working at home means legitimate home office. act a be at them. Writing "a few sentences before work everyday will"
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Author practicing accountant workshop leader and seminar speaker -- June has been a tax and financial adviser to self-employed people since 1979. Her talented and gifted clients work and be throughout North America and Europe. This diverse array of independent professionals – June calls them indies -- includes psychologists carpenters. IT consultants life coaches realtors and attorneys. A devotee of the arts. June also counsels a large be of actors writers graphic artists gallery owners and musicians. Before moving to Santa Fe in 1995 she had offices in New York and New Jersey. Over the years June has developed an educational come to her work. Whether with clients or in her writing and seminars she teaches self-employed people that although written for the corporate world the tax laws and regulations can work to an indie’s favor.
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