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How do I claim self-employed travel expenses?

by TurboTax•5• Updated 2 weeks ago

If you're self-employed, you can claim reasonable travel expenses from yourself or your employees.

Select your TurboTax product and follow the steps to claim travel expenses.

  1. Answer the initial Personal Info and Tax Profile interview questions if you haven't already. This unlocks 2024 tax return.
  2. From 2024 tax return, under Add to your return, enter self-employment and select Self-Employment.
  3. At Your Self-Employment or Business Summary, select Enter New Business.
  4. Answer all the questions about your self-employment, continuing until you get to Next up, claiming your expenses. Select Continue.
  5. At Select the types of expenses you have, select More expenses, and select Add under Business travel and then continue.
  6. At Here's your [type of business] info, under Business travel, select Start.
  7. Enter the amount of your eligible travel expenses.
  1. Select Find from the menu and enter business.
  2. Select Business profile, then select Go, and at Business expert interview, select Continue.
  3. At Business Identification, select your category of self-employment, then select Continue.
  4. At T2125 Business Identification, enter your self-employment business information.
  5. Continue completing each screen, providing the information requested.
  6. At T2125 Business Income, provide the gross revenue (sales, fees) and other information, then select Continue.
  7. At T2125 Valuing Inventory, provide applicable information and select Continue, or select Skip Inventory.
  8. At T2125 Vehicle Expenses, select Yes if you have business vehicle expenses, and complete the screens for vehicle expenses.
  9. At T2125 Claiming Business Expenses, select Continue.
  10. At Meals and Entertainment, include your meal expenses from business travel, including a $50 per day fixed rate for any conventions attended, then select Continue.
  11. At Business Travel Expenses, claim the total of all travel expenses, but don't include the meal and entertainment expenses from step #10, and don't include convention expenses, then select Continue.
  12. At Other Expenses, include convention expenses after subtracting the $50 per day amount included at Step #10, then select Continue.