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Posted by Bill Brown on April 18, 2007, 2:16 am
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> I have to do my own taxes this year, our usual tax preparer
> had a sudden family emergency.
>
> I have two questions, that somebody perhaps could help me
> with:
>
> 1) My company requires, that for every daily mileage expense
> submitted, I subtract the mileage from my house to the
> office. So, if it's 20 miles from home to the airport, and
> 25 miles to my office, I can't expense the trip from home to
> the airport. Does the same rule apply when claiming tax
> deduction for car expense ? I have made probably a few
> hundred trips to different sites and vendors from my home
> and couldn't expense them because the distance traveled was
> less than commute to office.
Local job related travel between home and a temporary work
location is deductible if you have a local permanent job
location for the same job. Employers are NOT required to
reimburse you for all your deductible expenses. As you
describe it, you have a employee expense deductible on
Schedule A as a miscellaneous deduction subject to a 2% of
adjusted gross income reduction.
> 2) I didn't even request mileage expense reimbursement for
> most of the year - our management started to enforce the
> policy that mileage should be expensed within 3 months, or
> lost. In the past years, we could get away by submitting all
> prior mileage expenses around October, when things get a bit
> less crazy at work (usually I don't even go to lunch unless
> I need to meet with somebody). Can I still claim this unused
> reimbursement in my taxes ?
In my opinion, yes.
You start on Form 2106 and carry the total of unreimbursed
expenses to Schedule A. Be aware, as noted above, your total
miscellaneous itemized deductions have to exceed 2% of AGI
before you get a tax benefit.
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