Is my main office, 100 miles from where I live, my tax home?

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June 1, 2019
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I currently work as an insurance claims adjuster for a large insurance company. I am only required to go into our main office once a week, which is about 100 miles from where I live. The rest of my week, I am sent to various locations to do claim inspections, the general area being close to where I live. I am unable to determine if the main office is considered my tax home and my assignments considered "temporary work assignments" or if my tax home is the general area of my assignments?

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TomD8

Employee

Here's the IRS definition of "tax home":

Generally, your tax home is the entire city or general area where your main place of business or work is located, regardless of where you maintain your family home. For example, you live with your family in Chicago but work in Milwaukee where you stay in a hotel and eat in restaurants. You return to Chicago every weekend. You may not deduct any of your travel, meals or lodging in Milwaukee because that is your tax home. Your travel on weekends to your family home in Chicago is not for your work, so these expenses are also not deductible. If you regularly work in more than one place, your tax home is the general area where your main place of business or work is located .

https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc511.html

**Answers are correct to the best of my ability but do not constitute tax or legal advice.