Homebuilt tax writeoff

"RobertR237" wrote
I know of several people who "commute" to work using their planes.
It doesn't
have to mean that you have an office job that you commute to, I
could have used
a plane to commute to work in Dallas from Houston for the last years
and could
have written off the expenses as ligitimate business expense since
the distance
is over the 50 mile limit.


Whoa there, there's no 50-mile test for personal commuting vs.
deductible travel. Sounds like confusion with the 50-mile test for
moving expenses. There are rules for temporary business travel and
they do not involve distance at all, but even there, doing so by
private aircraft is subject to a "personal lark" test enunciated in a
Tax Court case long ago and it still stands.

Fred F.

"TaxSrv" wrote in message
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Whoa there, there's no 50-mile test for personal commuting vs.
deductible travel. Sounds like confusion with the 50-mile test for
moving expenses. There are rules for temporary business travel and
they do not involve distance at all, but even there, doing so by
private aircraft is subject to a "personal lark" test enunciated in a
Tax Court case long ago and it still stands.

You just tell 'em "It's not a lark, its a Cardinal." :-)