Client works as an account rep for Coke and is on the road every day.
Client "assigned" to an office 66 miles from home (132 miles round trip). He has no work space at this location. He is required to go to this location about 1 time per week for a meeting or pick up supplies.
All other days, client leaves from his home to service all accounts in his assigned territory which is outside the city he resides.
Coke reimburses client a fixed monthly rate of $375 per month plus "business mileage". The problem for the client is Coke subtracts the 132 round trip miles from his daily total because they say this is commuting mileage even though he is not going to his "assigned" place of work each day.
Client drove 35,000 miles in 2012 but only 13,785 miles are counted as business miles by Coke.
Seems he should be able to at least claim miles from first stop to the last stop of the day as business miles. Drive to first client and drive home from last client would be commuting.
Has anyone run into a similar situation to this before?
Up until last year, client was provided with a vehicle by Coke to use. This year, client was reqiured to purchase a car not older than 5 years and not less than $20,000 to be reimbursed for business mileage. Actual costs to car are much higher than reimbursements because of what Coke is calling commuting.
