ABSTRACT
Travel easily gets reclassified as a personal expense if you bring family members, and/or you lack a real business reason to make the trip in the first place. New entrepreneurs also tend to flat-out misuse travel deductions, simply by keeping good records or lacking business substance for what’s often a very large expense. Busy self-employed people like us frequently have to travel: constantly running around to gaming conventions, local developer groups, meeting up with your dev team to work on the game, meeting with professionals who want to help you grow your business such as consultants, publishers. Today, there are several different mileage apps to choose from so you should pick the one that you like best. Keeping a manual mileage log, like recording mileage in a spreadsheet you can access with your phone, is helpful in case you’re driving in areas with spotty connections, you can easily ascertain trip length with map apps of your choice.
