{"id":323,"date":"2017-11-01T17:02:46","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T17:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/expressmileage.com\/pages\/?p=323"},"modified":"2017-11-01T18:03:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T18:03:44","slug":"mileage-logs-for-canada-revenue-agency-audits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expressmileage.com\/pages\/mileage-logs-for-canada-revenue-agency-audits\/","title":{"rendered":"Mileage Logs for Canada Revenue Agency Audits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadians rejoice!\u00a0 ExpressMileage can generate\u00a0driving logbooks for your tax and audit purposes that meet or exceed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/revenue-agency\/services\/tax\/businesses\/topics\/sole-proprietorships-partnerships\/business-expenses\/motor-vehicle-expenses\/motor-vehicle-records.html\">CRA&#8217;s requirements<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The CRA makes it easy to claim your\u00a0kilometers for business.\u00a0 You first need to establish a baseline driving model by capturing your\u00a0driving distances in a driving log for an entire year.\u00a0 This driving log needs to contain the following information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>date<\/li>\n<li>destination<\/li>\n<li>purpose<\/li>\n<li>number of kilometres you drive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thankfully, driving\u00a0logs created by ExpressMileage exceed this requirement.\u00a0 \u00a0Our logs also contain odometer readings for each drive.\u00a0\u00a0Since the Canada Revenue Agency does not require cost per kilometer to be calculated &#8211; you can simply remove\u00a0this column from the\u00a0kilometers\u00a0log you download from ExpressMileage.<\/p>\n<p>Once you&#8217;ve established this baseline logbook with 1 year of driving history, you can then use a 3-month sample logbook to foresee the future business use for the year &#8211; as long as your usage is within +\/- 10% of the baseline driving log and the amount of business vs personal usage remains relatively the same between years.<\/p>\n<p>Those in a audit with the CRA may need to produce up to 10 years of\u00a0driving logs to support\u00a0your\u00a0case.\u00a0 Using ExpressMileage, you can generate a driving log for the 1st\u00a0year and then download the log to your computer.\u00a0 Next,\u00a0\u00a0just simply delete the current log within ExpressMileage and generate a new\u00a0driving log for each of the remaining years.\u00a0 Create log online. Download to computer. Delete log online. Repeat.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Please contact us if you have any questions.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve helped thousands of Canadians create\u00a0driving logs for the CRA.\u00a0 We can help you too!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/expressmileage.com\">Need your own\u00a0driving\u00a0log for\u00a0CRA? Try making one today!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadians rejoice!\u00a0 ExpressMileage can generate\u00a0driving logbooks for your tax and audit purposes that meet or exceed the CRA&#8217;s requirements.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,2],"tags":[34,35,36,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/expressmileage.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/expressmileage.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/expressmileage.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expressmileage.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expressmileage.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/expressmileage.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327,"href":"https:\/\/expressmileage.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions\/327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expressmileage.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/expressmileage.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expressmileage.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expressmileage.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}