MARK KOHLERMain Street Professionals, Main Street Professionals, Main Street Professionals, Main Street Professionals, Main Street Professionals, LLC · Owner at Main Street Professionals, LLC

How Smart Business Owners Use Two Cars to Save Big

15 May 2026 · 0 min

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Mark Kohler explains how buying a cheap second car for personal errands lets you claim a higher business-use percentage on your main vehicle, boosting depreciation deductions. The key is documenting personal miles on the cheaper car so the IRS sees your primary vehicle as mostly business use.

When you're going actual, if possible, you want to have that second vehicle, that one that is the commuter. It is to the— go to the grocery store. And you can at least argue that with the IRS so that you can drive up the business use percentage on that more expensive vehicle. And that's going to help get you that larger depreciation deduction, the more expenses, because you can show this other car. Yeah.