[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":7},["ShallowReactive",2],{"faq-standard-3108":3},{"rec_id":4,"title":5,"text":6},"3108","Travel Expenses","Job Expenses: Menu Path: \u003Ci>Deductions/Credits > Other Deductions/Credits > Employee Business Expenses\u003C/i>\n\u003Cbr>\u003Cbr>\nSelf-Employment Expenses: Menu Path: \u003Ci>Income > Business / Rental Income > Business Income (Schedule C)\u003C/i>\n\u003Cbr>\u003Cbr> \nJob-related travel expenses are entered on the \u003Ci>Employee Business Expenses\u003C/i> screen. The deduction for these expenses is limited to the following types of employees: Armed Forces reservists, qualified performing artists, fee-based state or local government officials, or employees with impairment-related work expenses.\n\u003Cbr>\u003Cbr>\nSelf-employment-related business expenses are entered on the \u003Ci>Business Income (Schedule C)\u003C/i> screen. Travel expenses while away from your \"tax home\" for your business are deductible on \u003Ci>Schedule C\u003C/i>. Your tax home is your regular place of business. You are considered away from your tax home if you are out of the general area of your tax home for a period longer than a normal workday, and you need to sleep or rest.\n\u003Cbr>\u003Cbr>\nDeductible travel expenses include meals, lodging, transportation, automobile expense, taxi fares, telephone expense, and laundry and dry-cleaning expenses. The travel expenses of your spouse are not deductible unless your spouse is also an employee and serves a legitimate business purpose on the trip. However, you can still deduct 100% of the expenses, such as automobile and lodging expense, that you would have spent anyway if you had traveled alone instead of with your spouse. Your airfare in the United States is 100% deductible if your trip is primarily for business (airfare is 100% nondeductible if the travel is primarily for pleasure).\n\u003Cbr>\u003Cbr>\nAny expenses related to personal travel, such as a quick two day side trip to the beach, are not deductible. Expenses related to foreign travel must generally be allocated between business days and personal days unless certain exceptions are met. You can deduct all of your travel expenses for work on a temporary assignment out of town. An assignment is considered temporary if you expect the assignment to last less than a year and it, in fact, lasts less than a year.",1777391553003]