@Taxprohere   So, what would you do? The system spends millions to disallow deductions that cannot be substantiated. Doesn’t that deserve some respect?

On the other hand, are we sure that there are no contemporaneous records of mileage? Don’t Amazon and Wal-Mart keep track of runs, and make that available on request?

And what mileage is deductible, anyway? If your only job is picking stuff up at Amazon and delivering it to various addresses every day, is your trip from home to the Amazon warehouse deductible? If you do the same thing for Wal-Mart on some days, does that make both trips deductible? Or at least the mileage from Amazon to Wal-Mart?

In many cases Amazon drivers follow the same route every day. So if you know how many days you covered that route, and its length, is that sufficient?

And is there personal contact at the delivery points, so sometimes a customer will add a cash tip? (With Uber and Lyft, it’s added to the credit card.) Have you asked the client how much in tips they earned? Be sure to tell them how much EIC they lose when tips are made nontaxable.

You can always claim actual expenses instead of standard mileage rate. If the taxpayer is driving an ‘04 Hyundai, can you figure 30 cents a mile instead? Should you?