Shawn F. Jacobson
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I live in a very large US city (family home) and drive about an hour to work everyday (tax home). As long as tax home include the entire city or general area where I conduct business then my tax home and family home are definitely in different areas.
I was assigned to a temporary location that is in my family home area. The assignment was supposed to last for 7 months and actually lasted 8 months. I realistically expected the job to last for less than a year and in reality it did end up lasting for less than a year. Temporary Job or Assignment as defined by publication 463. Correct?
My normal drive from family home to tax home is about 55 miles while my drive from my family home to the temporary job location is 15 miles. If I understand correctly I will deduct my round trip mileage from family home to temporary job location (30 miles/day) plus tolls.
Reading through Pub463 I saw that meals could possibly be deducted too. Is this something that is too sketchy or that the IRS will severely frown upon? In Chapter 1 under "Travel for days you depart and return" it says I should reduce the standard meal allowance by 25%. In Pub1542 the M&IE for my family home area is about $60. Since I depart and return every day I would reduce the $60 to $45 and then there is the 50% Limit so my actual deduction would be about $23.
Driving round-trip from my family home to a temporary work location daily, would I be able to claim deductions for mileage, tolls, and M&IE? I'm fairly certain about the mileage and tolls, but what about the M&IE?
I have records for all the travel thanks to the toll road records. The facts are all legitimate too, I've been working at my tax home for over 5 years. I don't want anyone to think I'm trying to lie on my taxes about where I am working, but I do want to take advantage of all my possible deductions.
I was assigned to a temporary location that is in my family home area. The assignment was supposed to last for 7 months and actually lasted 8 months. I realistically expected the job to last for less than a year and in reality it did end up lasting for less than a year. Temporary Job or Assignment as defined by publication 463. Correct?
My normal drive from family home to tax home is about 55 miles while my drive from my family home to the temporary job location is 15 miles. If I understand correctly I will deduct my round trip mileage from family home to temporary job location (30 miles/day) plus tolls.
Reading through Pub463 I saw that meals could possibly be deducted too. Is this something that is too sketchy or that the IRS will severely frown upon? In Chapter 1 under "Travel for days you depart and return" it says I should reduce the standard meal allowance by 25%. In Pub1542 the M&IE for my family home area is about $60. Since I depart and return every day I would reduce the $60 to $45 and then there is the 50% Limit so my actual deduction would be about $23.
Driving round-trip from my family home to a temporary work location daily, would I be able to claim deductions for mileage, tolls, and M&IE? I'm fairly certain about the mileage and tolls, but what about the M&IE?
I have records for all the travel thanks to the toll road records. The facts are all legitimate too, I've been working at my tax home for over 5 years. I don't want anyone to think I'm trying to lie on my taxes about where I am working, but I do want to take advantage of all my possible deductions.