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 you help pay for college by working on the side, your work-related driving may be another write-off. If you work for yourself, you can deduct business driving from your business income at 56.5 cents per mile. If you're an employee and don't get reimbursed, you can write off mileage as an employee expense if you itemize deductions.