Can I bill my airplane travel expenses to a client?

"Michael 182" wrote in message
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I have a PPL, no commercial. I travel for my consulting busines, which I
own. Can I bill my client some reasonable rate for travel expenses when I
use my plane? I am not using the plane to generate income, it is
tangential
to my business, which happens to be technology litigation consulting.


I believe the answer is yes, since travel is incidental. Just
like a car.

But to avoid any possibility of some over-zealous FAA wallah
making your life a misery over the 'compensation' issue, try
this. Bump up your hourly rate to cover incidental travel expenses,
don't bother to bill your client at all for travel, and then take the
standard IRS airplane mileage as a business deduction. Can't
find the link right now, but I believe it is presently $0.96/mile.

It doesn't hurt to fill the plane with computers/books & take a
few pictures to prove later (if necessary) that private airplane
transport made sound economic sense for this particular client.

--
Dr. Tony Cox
Citrus Controls Inc.
e-mail:
http://CitrusControls.com/

It doesn't hurt to fill the plane with computers/books & take a
few pictures to prove later (if necessary) that private airplane
transport made sound economic sense for this particular client.

Very good advice. The secret to never being audited is to be ready for
an audit, and the secret to being ready for an audit is the ability to
drown Donna Tax Adjuster in paperwork.

One year I had the daybed in my office re-upholstered, and I worried
about how I would explain *that* to Donna. So I had my wife photograph
me writing on a yellow legal pad, lying on the bed with my knees
propped up. (Bad back It went into my Current Taxes folder so I
could always pull it out and show it to Donna.

all the best -- Dan Ford
email: www.danford.net/letters.htm#9

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