{"id":386,"date":"2016-09-18T12:55:39","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T12:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expressmileage.com\/pages\/?p=386"},"modified":"2018-09-18T13:01:22","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T13:01:22","slug":"2016-standard-mileage-rate-tax-deduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expressmileage.com\/pages\/2016-standard-mileage-rate-tax-deduction\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Standard Mileage Rate &#8211; Tax Deduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Need a mileage log for an audit on your 2016 taxes?\u00a0 ExpressMileage can help!<\/p>\n<p>From the IRS&#8217;s 2016 press release:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Beginning on Jan. 1, 2016, the standard mileage rates for the use of a car (also vans, pickups or panel trucks) will be:\u00a0<b>54 cents per mile<\/b>\u00a0for business miles driven, down from 54 cents for 2016.\u00a0<b>19 cents per mile<\/b>\u00a0driven for medical or moving purposes, down from 19 cents for 2016<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>2016 IRS Standard Mileage Rates:<\/p>\n<div class=\"knowledge-webanswers_table__webanswers-table\" data-hveid=\"29\">\n<table width=\"653\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"3\">IRS Mileage Rates<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Year<\/th>\n<th>Business Rate<\/th>\n<th>Medical or Moving Rate<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2018<\/td>\n<td>54.5 cents\/mile<\/td>\n<td>18 cents\/mile<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2017<\/td>\n<td>53.5 cents\/mile<\/td>\n<td>17 cents\/mile<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>2016<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>54 cents\/mile<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>19 cents\/mile<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/expressmileage.com\">Need to make a 2016 mileage log? \u00a0Make one today using ExpressMileage!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Great, I&#8217;m ready to take the 2016 Standard Mileage Rate deduction on my taxes.\u00a0 How do I do it?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Simple!\u00a0 You need a mileage log that shows your drive-by-drive mileage and totals the number of miles you drove for Business purposes.\u00a0 Then you simply multiple the number of Business miles by the 54 cent rate to calculate your mileage deduction.\u00a0 For example, if you drove 10,000 business miles in 2016 you would receive a tax deduction of $5400!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I drove my car for business reasons! How do I track my mileage and take this deduction?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You need a mileage log that has the following information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>date of drive(s)<\/li>\n<li>drive-by-drive distance (mileage)<\/li>\n<li>places you drove for business (exact addresses are NOT required)<\/li>\n<li>business purpose of drive<\/li>\n<li>start odometer \/ end odometer readings for each drive<\/li>\n<li>summary of personal and business mileage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>ExpressMileage makes IRS compliant driving logs with all of this information.\u00a0 <strong>All you need is 5 minutes and your starting odometer reading for 2016 and we will do the rest!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/expressmileage.com\">Make a 2016 mileage log in 5 minutes? \u00a0Make one today using ExpressMileage!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[maxbutton id=&#8221;1&#8243; text=&#8221;Make a Mileage Log in Minutes&#8221; ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Need a mileage log for an audit on your 2016 taxes?\u00a0 ExpressMileage can help! From the IRS&#8217;s 2016 press&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[51,52,50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/expressmileage.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386"}],"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=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/expressmileage.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"https:\/\/expressmileage.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expressmileage.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/expressmileage.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expressmileage.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expressmileage.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}