After reading, oh...say 20 pages so far of Dollar Den, I've found out that you cannot deduct commuting costs to your "home club".
This makes sense, but I have a weird situation. As mentioned before, I worked in 2006 (and part of 07-gotta file that quarterly soon!) at a peep show at an adult bookstore. The thing is, we were required to travel to 3 different stores (and an occassional trip out east to the 4th). Do all of these places constitute my "home club"? I don't quite understand as each store had a different business name although they were all essentially the same thing, and I think owned by the same person.
Should I choose the place closest to me and designate that as my home club, or are they all my home club, as I consistently worked monthly shifts at each one all year?
I'm only asking this because 2 of the places are 50 miles and 65 miles away, and the other only 15 miles away. Oh, and the 4th is 215 miles away, but I only went there four times and had to stay overnight at a hotel (no I don't have the receipts, unfortunately.)
I have racked up nearly 17000 miles in one year commuting.
Also, what about turnpike tolls? I don't have paper receipts but I have EZPass, which will show the tolls paid on the days that I worked.
I'm not sure what my accountant will tell me about this, but I think you ladies (esp Melonie) probably know more about it than she does!!!!



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