Industry Notes: Know These Tax Rate Changes for Traveling Staff
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If you don’t pay the full Internal Revenue Service mileage rate to your employees for travel, you should alert them to a tax change that may affect them.
In a notice issued May 25, the IRS implements a change made in last December’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. “The [2018] business standard mileage rate … which was issued before the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passed, cannot be used to claim an itemized deduction for un-reimbursed employee travel expenses in taxable years beginning after Dec...
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