As a taxpayer, if you use your own car for work purposes, you can claim a tax deduction using one of two methods — the cents per kilometre method or the logbook method. If you use someone else’s car for work purposes, you can only claim for direct costs you pay for (such as the fuel used).
You can claim a deduction for car expenses if:
- you use your car in the course of performing work duties
- you attend work-related conferences or meetings away from your normal workplace
- you travel directly between two separate places of employment and one of the places is not your home
- you travel from your normal workplace to an alternative workplace and back to your normal workplace
- you travel from your home to an alternative workplace and then to your normal workplace
- you perform itinerant work.
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