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Posted by Chris on November 7, 2007, 3:46 pm
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My wife does not have a full-time job. She is managing a
real estate rental property. Often times, she had to travel
from our primary resident home to the rental property for
rental related functions. Can she write-off the mileage
traveled from our house to the rental property?
Thanks,
CT
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Posted by Paul Thomas, CPA on November 8, 2007, 3:32 am
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> My wife does not have a full-time job. She is managing a
> real estate rental property. Often times, she had to travel
> from our primary resident home to the rental property for
> rental related functions. Can she write-off the mileage
> traveled from our house to the rental property?
If this is your personal property (you report the rents and
rent related expenses on Schedule E), you would deduct those
travel expenses against the rental incomes.
If she is managing someone else's property (she's
self-employed property manager), then the travel falls to
Schedule C against her management income.
If she's an employee of the rental management company, these
expenses should be reimbursed by the employer - if not they
fall to a 2106 and Schedule A.
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Paul A. Thomas, CPA
Athens, Georgia
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Posted by D. Stussy on November 8, 2007, 3:32 am
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> My wife does not have a full-time job. She is managing a
> real estate rental property. Often times, she had to travel
> from our primary resident home to the rental property for
> rental related functions. Can she write-off the mileage
> traveled from our house to the rental property?
Short answer: Yes - On Schedule E.
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Posted by Herb Smith on November 8, 2007, 3:32 am
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> My wife does not have a full-time job. She is managing a
> real estate rental property. Often times, she had to travel
> from our primary resident home to the rental property for
> rental related functions. Can she write-off the mileage
> traveled from our house to the rental property?
No. Unless she has a valid "home office" at her residence
(used exclusively for such business), this is merely
commuting mileage.
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Posted by Arthur Kamlet on November 9, 2007, 6:56 am
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>> My wife does not have a full-time job. She is managing a
>> real estate rental property. Often times, she had to travel
>> from our primary resident home to the rental property for
>> rental related functions. Can she write-off the mileage
>> traveled from our house to the rental property?
> No. Unless she has a valid "home office" at her residence
> (used exclusively for such business), this is merely
> commuting mileage.
As I learned it, real estate rentals are not the sort of
trade or business necessary for home office deduction.
Howevver if the wife is an employee, drawing a W-2 form, she
may have 2106 employee business expenses, after factoring
out the commuting. Or if she has home office for her
employee job she can take home office and milage on the
2106.
Or she might have a schedule C property management business
and takes mileage and home office on her schedule C. Not on
a schedule E.
2106 expenses.
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ArtKamlet at a o l dot c o m Columbus OH K2PZH
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