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Notes on logbooks, rates and driving for work.
Short, sourced, and checked against the CRA’s and the IRS’s own pages. RSS
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Leaving MileIQ: exporting your data and starting a new log
How to get your drives out of MileIQ, what to keep and for how long, what a new log needs on day one, and what does not carry over.
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Odometer readings, year bounds, and the percent-of-driving check
Why the CRA asks for start and end of year odometer readings, how two readings turn a log into a percentage, and a monthly habit that catches gaps early.
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What your mileage app knows about you: reading the privacy label
How to read an App Store privacy label for a mileage tracker, what Data Used to Track You means, and what the labels of three popular apps said on August 21, 2026.
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How mileage apps decide a drive has started: Bluetooth, beacons and motion
The three ways an app knows you are driving, how each one fails, and the honest limits of relying on the car's Bluetooth.
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IRS standard mileage rate for 2026: a split year
72.5 cents for January through June, 76 cents from July 1, how that compares with 2025, and what it means for a log that crosses the midpoint.
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EV charging as a vehicle expense in Canada
Where electricity fits among vehicle costs, what to record for each charge, the home-charging attribution problem, and what public-network receipts give you.
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Employee allowance or self-employed deduction: the two Canadian regimes
A T2200 employee and a T2125 sole proprietor account for the same driving in different ways. The two systems side by side, with one worked example.
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Reconstructing a mileage log after missing months
Honest guidance when the log has gaps: what evidence helps, what the CRA accepts and does not, and why prevention is cheaper than reconstruction.
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What the CRA wants in a mileage logbook
The full logbook, the simplified three-month sample, the 10-point rule with its formula, what each trip record needs, and how long to keep it.
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CRA automobile allowance rates for 2026 (with 2024 and 2025)
The per-kilometre rates the CRA treats as reasonable for 2024, 2025 and 2026, what the two tiers mean, and a worked example for 6,200 km.
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