How many miles? (Car version)

Originally Posted by BillyMac

1230 miles. I live in a small state, Connecticut, and our local board only covers about 20% of the state, which contains seventy different high schools. And, by the way, if anyone from the IRS asks, I never go directly from work to a game. I always stop home first to feed the cat, and to get my bag with my uniform ($5.00 per week laundry allowance) and equipment. There are about four schools within a stone's throw of the laboratory where I work, but, dang, I have to go home to feed the cat. She gets upset with me if I don't feed her her dinner on time.

Wow, did you adopt the cat from the movie "Mousehunt"?

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by mbyron

I thought Bambi was your masseuse. Get your story straight, Padgett.

She's both. Plus, sometimes she's also my nurse. How do you think I get my meds?

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

She's both. Plus, sometimes she's also my nurse. How do you think I get my meds?

Wow wow wow

[GoodwillRef]

With 93 games (High School and College) I logged almost 15,000 miles this basktball season...2008-2009! I may have not driven all of them but I was in a vehicle for all of them.

[26 Year Gap]

Had only about 2100 for a 35 game schedule that was billed. But another 1300 or so that goes on the Schedule C.

[fullor30]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

1230 miles. I live in a small state, Connecticut, and our local board only covers about 20% of the state, which contains seventy different high schools. And, by the way, if anyone from the IRS asks, I never go directly from work to a game. I always stop home first to feed the cat, and to get my bag with my uniform ($5.00 per week laundry allowance) and equipment. There are about four schools within a stone's throw of the laboratory where I work, but, dang, I have to go home to feed the cat. She gets upset with me if I don't feed her her dinner on time.

"Verbs has to agree with their subjects."



I'm no English major, but as long as you're in a teaching mode, wouldn't that be

Verbs HAVE to agree with their subjects.

[SAK]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

1230 miles. I live in a small state, Connecticut, and our local board only covers about 20% of the state, which contains seventy different high schools. And, by the way, if anyone from the IRS asks, I never go directly from work to a game. I always stop home first to feed the cat, and to get my bag with my uniform ($5.00 per week laundry allowance) and equipment. There are about four schools within a stone's throw of the laboratory where I work, but, dang, I have to go home to feed the cat. She gets upset with me if I don't feed her her dinner on time.

For some reason I thought that if you stop home you cannot not that mileage. Only if you are going from one job to another can you count the mileage. Is that true. BTW, I don't deduct my mileage. Maybe that is something I should think about doing.

And whats the deal with the allowance for the laundry??

[Welpe]

Originally Posted by SAK

For some reason I thought that if you stop home you cannot not that mileage. Only if you are going from one job to another can you count the mileage. Is that true.

My tax person has me claim all mileage to and from home. She has said that since officiating is self employment, all related mileage can be claimed. This is one reason why I have somebody prepare my taxes, I'd rather have her judgment to fall back on in an audit rather than my own.

BTW, I don't deduct my mileage. Maybe that is something I should think about doing.

Absolutely! Claiming mileage can greatly reduce your tax liability, and depending upon the amount of travel, camps and other related expenses, could result in you actually claiming a loss.

Again, I highly recommend seeing a tax professional.

And whats the deal with the allowance for the laundry??

It is a related expense.

[26 Year Gap]

Originally Posted by SAK

For some reason I thought that if you stop home you cannot not that mileage. Only if you are going from one job to another can you count the mileage. Is that true. BTW, I don't deduct my mileage. Maybe that is something I should think about doing.

And whats the deal with the allowance for the laundry??

Some have advocated drycleaning your uniform once & saving the receipt. You could consider that expense times the number of games worked as the deduction according to those advocates.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by SAK

For some reason I thought that if you stop home you cannot not that mileage. Only if you are going from one job to another can you count the mileage. Is that true. I don't deduct my mileage. Maybe that is something I should think about doing. And whats the deal with the allowance for the laundry??

I have actually heard the opposite. I've heard that you cannot count mileage from your day job to your game sites, something about "commuting" mileage. That's why, even if the school is only a few miles away from work, I always "go home to feed the cat (if you get my drift)". It's real easy to figure out my mileage. My one way mileage from home is on the Arbiter, so I just double it. In any case my accountant asks for, and uses, my round trip mileage, from home, for games, meetings, and clinics. He also allows me to declare $5.00 per week for my expenses to home launder my uniform. I'll double check with him on Sunday. It's visiting day at the prison. That reminds me. I have to buy a file and bake a cake before April 15.

[26 Year Gap]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

I have actually heard the opposite. I've heard that you cannot count mileage from your day job to your game sites, something about "commuting" mileage. That's why, even if the school is only a few miles away from work, I always "go home to feed the cat (if you get my drift)". In any case my accountant asks for, and uses, my round trip mileage, from home, for games, meetings, and clinics. He also allows me to declare $5.00 per week for my expenses to home launder my uniform. I'll double check with him on Sunday. It's visiting day at the prison. That reminds me. I have to buy a file and bake a cake before April 15.

So, you're filing TWICE?

[SAK]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

I have actually heard the opposite. I've heard that you cannot count mileage from your day job to your game sites, something about "commuting" mileage. That's why, even if the school is only a few miles away from work, I always "go home to feed the cat (if you get my drift)". It's real easy to figure out my mileage. My one way mileage from home is on the Arbiter, so I just double it. In any case my accountant asks for, and uses, my round trip mileage, from home, for games, meetings, and clinics. He also allows me to declare $5.00 per week for my expenses to home launder my uniform. I'll double check with him on Sunday. It's visiting day at the prison. That reminds me. I have to buy a file and bake a cake before April 15.

I would like to know. I have a tax professional, I will have to check with him about deducting mileage.

Thanks.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by SAK

I would like to know. I have a tax professional, I will have to check with him about deducting mileage.

I bet that you don't have to go through a complete body cavity search to meet with your accountant. I'm getting tired explaining why I have a file in my ... never mind.

[mick]

Originally Posted by SAK

I would like to know. I have a tax professional, I will have to check with him about deducting mileage.

Thanks.

IRS allows a mileage allowance. Last year the allowance for the first part of the year was different from the allowance the last half of the year.

You multiply the allowance x the miles, and that becomes an expense to be used against your total income, which may include money that you were paid for gas.

A carpenter.

I worked at an agency where I was given a couple of choices as to my employement status in regards to how I wanted my benefits and reimbursements handled (and this choice came after I had been working there for about 9 months and they were giving everyone the screwover on changing their salaries to hourly wages). Being an employee meant full benefits at no cost, and my mileage being reimbursed only from the office to the client's home or meeting place. Any time I wanted to go from home to the client's home/meeting place, it would not be reimbursed because it was "commuting" miles. However, if I had decided to work as an independent contractor with this agency, I would get benefits only to have to pay for them (with no wage offset to make up for it) and ALL my mileage would be reimbursed regardless of where I started from. Of course, I stayed on as an employee, but how much easier it would have been to become an independent contractor there. But the mileage thing stuck in my head, and when it comes to officiating miles, I knew what I could claim.