[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by grunewar

I've been deducting mileage to and from games for all these years, but, an article in the October magazine has me a thinking: The article, written by "An enrolled agent licensed by the IRS and Official", he writes, "If you do not go to work at your regular work location, but go from home to the game, those miles are not deductible. Ouch! Your trip home is also not deductible. Another ouch!" He states if you go from work to a game, "Only the miles from your office or place of employment are counted as business miles.""It is a Saturday (a day off from your regular job) and you head to the game, none of these miles are business miles." He further states, that if officiating is your only job, you can count all the mileage to and from games. While it may not amount to much really, according to this article, I may have been doing it wrong for all these years.

I've heard the same thing.

For many, many years, I have given my round trip officiating miles to my accountant. I know that he uses those miles as a business expense, along with dues, uniform, etc. I also pay into Social Security on my tax return for my officiating income. I'm pretty sure that there are not too many officials who pay into Social Security, so grunewar's post is not going to make me feel guilty.

On the other hand, when a judge rules, "Guilty", then my accountant is going to be joining me "up the river", and we'll both be wearing horizontal stripes, which are not as slimming as the vertical stripes I wear as an official.