Regardless of whether you're self-employed and drive for business purposes, or whether you're doing community service and rack up mileage, or if your job requires you to drive your personal vehicle, in order to deduct vehicle expenses you MUST keep a mileage log to substantiate vehicle expense deductions (for both actual or mileage rate) in the event of an audit. The IRS has been asking tax pros to turn over the mileage log the client provided during tax preparatio [...]
