2017 Business Mileage Deduction!!!

Well every year the mileage allowance, as the IRS likes to call it, changes.
For 2017 it was down. We have a bout the same cost for fuel as last year but they dropped our rate a half cent . For 2017 the mileage allowance was 53.5 cents per mile.

For 2018 it is up to 54.5 cents per mile.The cost of fuel is low so it is a great deal!
In 2015 they had gone from the rate of 56 cents per mile for 2014 up to 57.5 cents per mile for 2015.

The big bonus is that the cost of tolls and parking fees are also deductible.

The reason that people are so excited to get news about what the mileage rate is going to be is that they want to get an idea about where they are going to stand with the government as far as deductions for taxes.

The small business person who drives his or her car or van around doing business every day usually pays off the loan on the vehicle sooner than later and most are paid for right now.

So the cost of the vehicle is now pretty much gone, but the deduction for costs are still around.

That is one way to do taxes, the actual costs of running the vehicle. I prefer the mileage method because it is always so advantageous for a business person to take.

If I sometimes have a jobsite that is 50 miles from home

The round trip is 100 miles and that will get me a mileage allowance of $54.50 for the trip.

I use the free mileage log to register the miles driven on what day etc.

Now that pays a lot more than the gas will cost.

I will use $13.00 to pay for gas but collect a deduction of $54.50.

So the thing here is that $53.50 - $13.00 = $40.50 and that remainder is all for me.

Of course, I have to pay for oil changes

Once every 3000 miles and although the vehicle is long ago paid for it did cost it's price. That is is a consideration.

Still some people work everyday and the numbers add up to a large amount of money for them to keep at tax time.