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Originally Posted by grunewar

I've been deducting mileage to and from games for all these years, but, an article in the Oct magazine has me a thinkin:

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 yrs.....

PS - I'm a changin my name.

Perhaps I'm oversimplifying, but aren't most of us independent contractors?
We're not employees.

"Two places of work. If you work at two places in one day, whether or not for the same employer, you can deduct the expense of getting from one workplace to the other. However, if for some personal reason you do not go directly from one location to the other, you cannot deduct more than the amount it would have cost you to go directly from the first location to the second.
Transportation expenses you have in going between home and a part-time job on a day off from your main job are commuting expenses. You cannot deduct them." http://www.irs.gov/publications/p463...blink100033930

I file Schedule C, Profit or Loss from Business, Sole Proprietorship.