Mixing Business & Pleasure Travel

14 Aug 2020 · 2 min

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Short YouTube explainer (hosted by Donna Bordeaux) about how to handle business vs. personal expenses when traveling. Key guidance: the IRS allows deduction of the business portion of mixed-use travel; airfare to a business destination may be deductible even if the traveler adds a personal day, but hotel costs for the personal day should be excluded. The host provides an example (three-day business conference plus one personal day), offers help via calculatedmoves.com, and prompts viewers to subscribe to the blog/YouTube channel.

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Donna Bordeaux

August 14, 2020

calculatedmoves.com (DonnaBordeaux@calculatedmoves.com)

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Do you ever mix some business and pleasure in your travel? Well, I'm Donna Bordeaux with calculatedmoves.com and I want to talk to you today about how you can make the most of your expenses when you're traveling in a mixed use capacity. The IRS will allow you to deduct the business portion. And and if you have an extra day that you use personal, you just have to exempt that. So imagine that you're traveling and you have airfare to get to a destination. If you were going to a destination and let's say you've got a business conference for three days and you're going to spend an extra day to go visit the sites in that town, you can still deduct that airfare. The hotel for that last day when you are out and about on personal should not be expensed, but the rest of the visit while on business can be. So make sure that you're taking advantage of your travel allowances and your business and seeing the sights. We have a beautiful country out there. I don't want you to miss anything. So if you have questions about how to make sure that your business travel expenses are deducted to the max, I'm here to help. I'm Donna Bordeaux@calculatedmoves.com hey and don't forget to subscribe to our blog. You can subscribe to our YouTube page right here in the link and you can also head over to our blog@calculatedmoves.com blog. Look forward to hearing from you.