Trucker Drivers – Tax Preparation, Back Tax Returns – Tax Settlements

by Fresh Start Tax | Mar 19, 2013 | Tax Help

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We are former IRS agents, managers, and instructors who are experts in the trucking industry.
We have prepared hundreds of returns for both truck drivers and those in the industry and can assure and guarantee to you that you will pay the lowest amount allowed by law.
Being former IRS agents and managers we know all available tax deductions and loopholes to make sure you’re paying only your fair share.
 

Back  or Unfiled Tax Returns

If you have not filed your back tax returns we can file all back years whether you have records or have lost your records. We are experts in IRS tax reconstruction. We can easily get you back into the IRS system to not be worried if you have multiple back years of tax returns you have the file.
Because we have prepared so many tax returns for truck drivers and those in the industries we have good idea of what the percentages and standards are for everyone in this field.
 

Business Travel Expenses

Travel expenses are the ordinary and necessary expenses of traveling away from home for your business, profession, or job.
Generally, employees deduct these expenses using Form 2106 (PDF) or Form 2106-EZ (PDF) and on Form 1040, Schedule A (PDF).
You cannot deduct expenses that are lavish or extravagant or that are for personal purposes.
You are traveling away from home if your duties require you to be away from the general area of your tax home for a period substantially longer than an ordinary day’s work, and you need to get sleep or rest to meet the demands of your work while away.
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.
An example
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.
In determining your main place of business, take into account the length of time you are normally required to spend at each location for business purposes, the degree of business activity in each area, and the relative significance of the financial return from each area. However, the most important consideration is the length of time spent at each location.
Travel expenses paid or incurred in connection with a temporary work assignment away from home are deductible. However, travel expenses paid in connection with an indefinite work assignment are not deductible.
Any work assignment in excess of one year is considered indefinite.
Also, you may not deduct travel expenses at a work location if it is realistically expected that you will work there for more than one year, whether or not you actually work there that long.
If you realistically expect to work at a temporary location for one year or less, and the expectation changes so that at some point you realistically expect to work there for more than one year, travel expenses become nondeductible when your expectation changes.
You may deduct travel expenses, including meals and lodging, you had in looking for a new job in your present trade or business. You may not deduct these expenses if you had them while looking for work in a new trade or business or while looking for work for the first time.
If you are unemployed and there is a substantial break between the time of your past work and your looking for new work, you may not deduct these expenses, even if the new work is in the same trade or business as your previous work.
Travel expenses for conventions are deductible if you can show that your attendance benefits your trade or business.
Special rules apply to conventions held outside the North American area.
Deductible travel expenses while away from home include, but are not limited to, the costs of:
a. Travel by airplane, train, bus, or car between your home and your business destination. (If you are provided with a ticket or you are riding free as a result of a frequent traveler or similar program, your cost is zero.)
b. Using your car while at your business destination. You can deduct actual expenses or the standard mileage rate, as well as business-related tolls and parking fees. If you rent a car, you can deduct only the business-use portion for the expenses.
c. Fares for taxis or other types of transportation between the airport or train station and your hotel, the hotel and the work location, and from one customer to another, or from one place of business to another.
d. Meals and lodging.
e. Tips you pay for services related to any of these expenses.
f. Dry cleaning and laundry.
g. Business calls while on your business trip (This includes business communications by fax machine or other communication devices).
h. Other similar ordinary and necessary expenses related to your business travel (These expenses might include transportation to and from a business meal, public stenographer’s fees, computer rental fees, and operating and maintaining a house trailer).
i. Shipping of baggage, and sample or display material between your regular and temporary work locations.
Instead of keeping records of your meal expenses and deducting the actual cost, you can generally use a standard meal allowance, which varies depending on where you travel.
 
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