I was wondering just yesterday as I was going to mail my quarterly fees to the IRS (and discovered I am out of stamps) if I could deduct the cost of the book of stamps. In my case these checks to the IRS are the only mail I send as everything else is on autopay. I wouldn’t be sending them at all if it weren’t for daycare.

Also I have not written off mileage in the past but I am interested in learning more about this. You track your miles to the grocery store and whatnot and there is a certain value you get back per mile such as with tracking meals I am guessing? What if I drive to the grocery store to get daycare groceries but then also get personal groceries? I planned to ask my tax guy in a few weeks when we meet but since someone else brought it up.. I am not interested in going back and doing 2017 but from 2018 forward I wanted to track.

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