Claiming mileage as an Independent Contractor?

If you have no regular place of business, then your home is likely considered your tax home whether or not you claim a home office on your taxes. Any driving between your tax home and your clients' homes, as well as driving from one client to another, can be reported as business mileage on Schedule C.

It is legal to claim your mileage as you would not be going there to begin with if

you were not deriving any income -

Keep good records of your mileage, the date, who you went to tutor (always good to include

the address also) Omete to start xxxxxxx Ometer reading end and total miles driven

don't go 5 miles to the grocery store and put that down to when you leave the client.

So you will know - enter reading when I leave home xxxxxxx

reading when I reach destination xxxxxx

reading when I get back home (this way you cover yourself as the miles should be

the same arriving and when you get back home - this is a sure check for IRS and

covers yourself - keep this long each time you visit a client - IRS has a set allowance

for cents per mile they allow -

If you go to multiple students' homes in one trip out from home, you can deduct the miles between the sites,but not the miles from your home to the first student's home, or from the last student's home back to yours.

The IRS will want to count the first and last trips of the day as commuting.

Yes, definitely.