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Posted by Harlan Lunsford on June 27, 2008, 5:22 pm
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removeps-groups@yahoo.com wrote:
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>> Ah but remember that to deduct mileage, one must be traveling away from
>> principal place of business. Given the facts in this case, that
>> he ".. basically went to the business and helped them with their
>> computers,..."
>> This means principal place of activity was at that one and ONLY
>> customer's site and not at his home, office or no.
>>
>> Travel is non deductible.
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> A good point, but think of a plumber who goes to a person's home/
> business to help them with fix their toilets. The miles the plumber
> drives are deductible. Their principle place of business might be
> their home or downtown office where they perform set up appointments,
> perform invoicing, etc. So travel to each client site is deductible.
> If the OP had such a setup, maybe he should be able to deduct miles
> too.
>
A plumber who works out of his home must drive his plumber's truck which
contains pipes, wrenchs, tools, etc, and this clearly makes the travel
deductible, whether or not he has a home office.
In OP's case, he didn't need a vehicle to haul stuff in; just himself,
so that's commuting and non deductible.
Besides, remember? He only had one client.
ChEAr$,
Harlan Lunsford, EA n LA
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