{"id":1103,"date":"2013-03-13T02:35:18","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T02:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jcsmithonline.com\/?p=1103"},"modified":"2013-03-13T02:35:18","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T02:35:18","slug":"tax-tip-deductible%e2%80%89driving%e2%80%89costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcsmithonline.com\/?p=1103","title":{"rendered":"Tax Tip &#8211; Deductible\u2009driving\u2009costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can deduct actual mileage costs when you use your car for business purposes. as a general rule, you must keep a diary that includes the beginning and ending odometer readings foreach trip, as well as the trip\u2019s purpose. <strong>Loophole:<\/strong>\u2009The diary entry is sufficient to prove your deduction if you are taking the IRS standard mileage rate for driving costs. You don\u2019t need to collect receipts for gasoline, repairs, insurance and other automobile expenses unless you\u2019re deducting your actual driving expenses rather than the IRS rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can deduct actual mileage costs when you use your car for business purposes. as a general rule, you must keep a diary that includes the beginning and ending odometer readings foreach trip, as well as the trip\u2019s purpose. Loophole:\u2009The diary entry is sufficient to prove your deduction if you are taking the IRS standard mileage rate for driving costs. You don\u2019t need to collect receipts for gasoline, repairs, insurance and other automobile expenses unless you\u2019re deducting your actual driving expenses rather than the IRS rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,20,22,6],"tags":[34,35,33],"class_list":["post-1103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-displayed-articles","category-tax","category-tips","category-written-articles","tag-tax","tag-tips","tag-written-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcsmithonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcsmithonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcsmithonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcsmithonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcsmithonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcsmithonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcsmithonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcsmithonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcsmithonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcsmithonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}