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June 6, 2019
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Round trip expense out side metropolitan area

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my husband is self employed let say he is working out of our metropolitan area for a day , his odometer reading start a 00010 and ended at 00150 so he drove a 140 miles round trip, we are going to write off this expence on our dayli mileage log , but on his way he stop at the gas station on the side of the road and also he went to eat at a restarant during his luch my question is all these stops are included in the 140 miles round trip , or we need to write off a separate expense por each stop? Or make a note with detailed information about the lcation.
Best answer by RichardK

Generally, you would report the beginning and ending mileage of the business trip (in your example the odometer reading of 150 & 10 should be sufficient), and also make notes to record: names, addresses, reasons for the visits, and expenses, click here for IRS publication 463, chapter 5. Recordkeeping

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June 6, 2019

Generally, you would report the beginning and ending mileage of the business trip (in your example the odometer reading of 150 & 10 should be sufficient), and also make notes to record: names, addresses, reasons for the visits, and expenses, click here for IRS publication 463, chapter 5. Recordkeeping