Calculated travel expenses are not automatically allowed deductions. Review the purpose, vehicle election and return treatment below. This calculator does not collect addresses or track your location.
Medical, charitable and moving travel
Actual medical, charitable and moving car expenses here mean attributable gas and oil, plus allowed parking and tolls. They do not include the general vehicle ownership or depreciation allocation. Reimbursements reduce the eligible expense. Review separate return limitations.
Ordinary personal moves do not qualify. The 2026 Intelligence Community exception is distinct from the military exception. Eligibility and reimbursement treatment require review; a rate alone does not establish a deduction.
Medical expenses first face the 7.5% AGI floor. The displayed incremental deduction also compares total itemized deductions with the entered standard deduction. This is an expense and deduction calculation, not a credit or guaranteed refund.
Method eligibility or allowed amount is not established. Potential arithmetic is shown separately.
Medical, charitable and moving expenses remain separate from the reviewed business deduction and business tax effect. Review their return treatment below.
Even-split estimate: actual first-half miles were not entered. This is not a contemporaneous mileage log.
Actual expenses
Include supported vehicle operating or lease costs for the entered period. Exclude parking and tolls entered separately. Indicate whether the reviewed depreciation amount is already included. Blank leaves the actual comparison incomplete; it does not erase a known standard-mileage amount.
Actual business operating allocation + applied business depreciation + additional business parking and tolls. Standard mileage already includes depreciation and ordinary vehicle costs.
Published passenger-auto dollar limits are applied by placed-in-service cohort and scaled to business use. A reviewed pre-limit amount is still required. This is not a MACRS, basis, disposition or recapture calculator. Bonus or accelerated treatment requires more than 50% business use; vehicle-class exceptions need separate review.
Medical, charitable and moving expenses remain separate from the reviewed business deduction and business tax effect. Review their return treatment below.
Method eligibility or allowed amount is not established. Potential arithmetic is shown separately.
Even-split estimate: actual first-half miles were not entered. This is not a contemporaneous mileage log.
Business purpose and vehicle method
For an owned vehicle, standard mileage must be chosen in its first business year to preserve later standard-mileage eligibility. A later switch to actual expenses requires straight-line depreciation over the remaining useful life. Standard mileage for a leased vehicle must continue for the entire lease, including renewals. Additional restrictions apply.
Published passenger-auto dollar limits are applied by placed-in-service cohort and scaled to business use. A reviewed pre-limit amount is still required. This is not a MACRS, basis, disposition or recapture calculator. Bonus or accelerated treatment requires more than 50% business use; vehicle-class exceptions need separate review.
The larger calculated expense is not automatically the preferable tax method. Compare eligibility and the modeled tax changes; QBI and return thresholds can change the tax result.
Medical, charitable and moving expenses remain separate from the reviewed business deduction and business tax effect. Review their return treatment below.
Method eligibility or allowed amount is not established. Potential arithmetic is shown separately.
Dated mileage ledger
Record month, purpose and miles only; no addresses or trip locations. Saved rows retain their original year and rate. Changing the scenario year does not reprice historical rows. This planning ledger is not a substitute for required contemporaneous records.
Valid scenarios are saved only on this device in a new versioned record. Original older saved records remain unchanged. URLs stay clean during ordinary edits. No address or location tracking is used.
Only version 1 with supported YYYY-MM periods, known purpose codes, nonnegative miles and exact published rates is accepted. Duplicate period/purpose rows and unsupported dates are rejected atomically. No historical rows are overwritten silently.
Amounts are USD expenses before return limitations. Select miles to change the unit explicitly. Each trace shows miles × the applicable IRS rate; actual gas-and-oil expense is reported separately.
Medical, charitable and moving expenses remain separate from the reviewed business deduction and business tax effect. Review their return treatment below.