2013 Optional Standard Mileage Rates

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by GlennaMae Hendricks, EA


Wow! Mr. McCray washed the farm truck! (The farm truck *never* gets washed.)
Pickups use the same mileage rate as
cars and vans. 

The Internal Revenue Service has issued the 2013 optional standard mileage rates that may be used to calculate the deductible costs of operating an automobile for business, charitable, medical or moving purposes.


Starting Jan. 1, 2013, the standard mileage rate for a car (also vans, pickups or panel trucks) becomes:
  • 56.5 cents per mile for business miles driven
  • 24 cents per mile driven for medical or moving purposes
  • 14 cents per mile driven in service of charitable organizations


Source: IRS Newswire of 21 November 2012, IR-2012-95 

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Glenna Mae Hendricks. She is an entrepreneur and income tax consultant, so we get lots of good tax tips from her. She is an oenophile (“look that up in your Funk and Wagnall’s,” she says), and a wine enjoyment teacher/guide who also writes wine notes at the Allen’s Retail Liquors site. Her political thoughts (and occasional outbursts of domesticity) appear at Old Feminist and Wild-eyed Liberal.

Published: December 4, 2012

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