Say you live in New York. You have a (deductible) business trip to Los Angeles. You combine that with a (non-deductible) personal trip to San Francisco.
In scenario A, you return from San Francisco to Los Angeles, and then home to New York, either directly or after resuming the business activities in LA.
In scenario B, you return home directly to New York from San Francisco without stopping in Los Angeles.
For scenario A, the accounting is easy: the roundtrip flight NY-LA-NY is deductible, and the personal trip to San Francisco isn't. If that personal side trip was on a separate ticket, even easier. But even on one ticket, you can look in the ticket at the fares for each segment and arrive at the business part of the cost.
But how do you figure the business vs. personal portion in option B?
In scenario A, you return from San Francisco to Los Angeles, and then home to New York, either directly or after resuming the business activities in LA.
In scenario B, you return home directly to New York from San Francisco without stopping in Los Angeles.
For scenario A, the accounting is easy: the roundtrip flight NY-LA-NY is deductible, and the personal trip to San Francisco isn't. If that personal side trip was on a separate ticket, even easier. But even on one ticket, you can look in the ticket at the fares for each segment and arrive at the business part of the cost.
But how do you figure the business vs. personal portion in option B?
Statistics: Posted by Uncle Morris — Mon Jan 01, 2024 1:39 pm — Replies 0 — Views 1