Meet New Yorkâs new $15 minimum wage and 12-week paid family leave law, which is the longest allowed leave in the U.S. As part of New Yorkâs 2016-2017 budget approval process, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed two pieces of legislation affecting employers: a minimum wage increase and paid family leave.
IRS publications say that you can deduct mileage driven from your home to work sites if your home is your principal place of business. But itâs actually more complicated than that: to qualify as a principal place of business, your home office must be used regularly and exclusively as your principal place of business.
If one of your sites of business is your home office, there is an additional requirement. Both jobs have to be in the same industry, which mine are not. Itâs too bad. At 19 miles per round trip, 16 days a month, for 12 months works out to be 3648 miles, a deduction of $2006, or about $720 back in my pocket. I did manage to get a few miles for each business, but nowhere near the mileage I drive between my home and the hospital.