Mileage — the tax log that writes itself

What this screen is for. Mileage is money. Every drive to an inspection is worth a deduction at the IRS standard mileage rate. When a job is scheduled we log the round trip for you; add any other drive yourself, and hand your accountant one file at tax time. The IRS wants five things for every trip — the date, where from, where to, why, and the miles — and HomeRecon records all five. How to get there. Sidebar → Business → Mileage. What every button does The starting-point line — "Trips are measured from {your office} and back," with Change › to Business info (which also holds the office-vs- home leave-from choice). No address yet? "Add it ›" — trips need a starting place. The month strip — ‹ › steps months; Trips · Miles · Worth total the month; the year strapline runs the tally ("2026 so far: 1,240 mi · worth $942 at the IRS rate"). Everyone / Just me appears on multi-person firms. Log a trip — date (today, in your firm's zone), miles (round trip), where to and from (both suggest as you type), what for, and a Counts for taxes switch with honest helpers — a first trip from home is often commuting, so ask your accountant; flipping a home trip on sets your preference for future ones. The trip rows — destination, date, "24.6 mi at 76¢," and the dollars. Badges tell provenance: logged automatically (the scheduling engine wrote it when the job was booked — it follows reschedules and cancels) and corrected (you fixed one by hand). Tap any row to fix it; hand-logged trips can be deleted, auto-logged ones are kept complete — turn Counts for taxes off instead. Receipts — the tile opens the receipts sheet: snap fuel, supplies, and equipment receipts onto the same log (photo optional, amount, a category chip, an optional inspection). See the whole year › — the year sheet, whose footer saves the accountant's CSV and the one-page year PDF — rate periods broken out, excluded trips printed, receipts totaled. The screen and the file match to the cent. Common questions "Do I have to log my inspection drives?" No — the moment a job is scheduled, its round trip is on the log, dated for inspection day, moved if the job moves, gone if it cancels. "What's the current IRS rate?" The page tells you, live — HomeRecon keeps the rate up to date for you, including mid-year changes, and each trip is valued at its own date's rate. "What do I hand my accountant?" The year CSV and PDF from the year sheet. One file each, matching the screen to the cent. "I drove from home — does that count?" Often not (a first trip from home is usually commuting) — which is why home-start trips arrive with the switch off and a note to ask your accountant. Your call, remembered. "Travel fee vs mileage?" The travel fee is what your client pays; this log is what you deduct. Different things, both automatic. "Can I keep a trip but not deduct it?" Yes — Counts for taxes off. It stays on the log so the record is complete, struck through in the math. Good to know Distances are honest "about" figures you can correct — and HomeRecon keeps the log; your tax professional decides what you deduct. The inspection page's Drive card deep-links straight into its trip here ("Logged for taxes … Edit"). Show me how it works › runs a 30-second tour, anchored on a real job. Related Business — your address and leave-from point Service areas — the client-side travel fee Schedule — the bookings that write the log The inspection page — the Drive card