There are some exceptions to these rates. A taxpayer is not able to use the business standard mileage rate for a vehicle after claiming accelerated depreciation on that vehicle. The standard rate is also not applicable to fleet owners.
November 19, 2016. Ruth Gruber, an American journalist who stumbled into one of the great rescue stories of the Holocaust when the U.S. government appointed her to escort nearly 1,000 Jews across U-boat infested waters to the shores of the United States, died Nov. 17 at her home in Manhattan. She was 105.
In 1951, Gruber married Philip H. Michaels, a community leader in the South Bronx. She gave birth to two children, one of whom is Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health David Michaels, and continued her journalistic travels.