Hey everyone – this is a little off topic from film, but it’s a topic that’s come up in a lot of our conversations recently and is something that basically everyone working in the industry should know about because it can put a heck of a lot of cash back in your pocket at the end of the year.
Almost everyone in this business drives a lot for work – especially if you live in LA. Â From Santa Monica to Hollywood to the Valley and back, maybe more than once a day, you put a lot of miles on your car. Â All of those miles driven for business can be deducted from your gross adjusted income at $0.56 per mile. Â It’s an absolutely huge deduction – literally putting thousands of dollars in your pocket every year.
The problem is that nobody keeps a mileage log.  We know the drill, it’s impossible to remember to keep a log when you are being pressed for every ounce of time on set.  Besides that, it’s a huge pain and frankly it’s just too easy to forget to keep a mileage log by hand anyway.  We have the same issue – and over the last several years we’ve tried just about every tool out there to do it for us, including a bunch of apps and even a few devices.  Apps really don’t work very well and we never liked anything, and found that our logs were still totally incomplete.
But a month ago we finally found the thing that does what everyone wants. Â It’s called The Mileage Ace and it’s the best mileage tracker, hands down. Â It stays permanently in your car and creates a 100% accurate IRS mileage log for every trip you drive. Â It never misses a thing. Â And the best part is that you do not need to lift a finger if you don’t want to – and it still works.
We could give you a bunch of details on it, but you can get it all at their website www.mileage-ace.com. Â All we can say is if you’re driving for business and claiming the mileage deduction, go buy The Mileage Ace. Â These mileage trackers should be so mandatory that every car should ship with one.