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Posted by Karl Magdono on December 24, 2007, 12:17 pm
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I sold my home in Ohio because I knew I was moving to Indiana for work
that would begin in August. I had to move out in early July because
that's when the buyers wanted to move in. At that point, I didn't
specifically know what apartment/house I would be living in in Indiana
and I had nowhere else to live, so I moved my stuff to my parents'
home in Michigan. Less than 30 days later, I moved most (but not all)
of the stuff from MI to my new apartment in Indiana. I have read
http://www.irs.gov/publications/p521/ar02.html#d0e1163 , but it is not
clear to me if I can deduct the cost of the moving truck, fuel, etc.
from OH to MI and then from MI to IN, or if I somehow have to develop
an approximation for a route direct from OH to IN.
To me, it seems reasonable to deduct it all (OH to MI to IN):
1) I had to accept the buyer's conditions of moving out in July
because of the bad housing market,
2) it's not like I was sight-seeing as with the example of "Beth" seen
at the previous URL, and
3) I needed to get stuff to my parents because I didn't know how much
storage I would have in IN at the time I had to move from OH (so even
if I had time to identify storage in IN in July, which I didn't, I
wouldn't have known if I would be able to eventually move everything
out of storage once I found a place to live in IN).
If it's relevant, I wasn't planning on deducting anything for paying
my parents for storage.
What do you think? Thanks for your advice.
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