The issue in the recent case was not the quantum of automobile expenses claimed — some $12,868 in 2015 — but rather whether the expenses were deductible at all. The taxpayer, an employee of a global beauty company that manufactures and sells cosmetics, was reassessed by the CRA for attempting to deduct vehicle travel expenses she had claimed for driving between the location of her home office, located in Pickering, Ont.
The taxpayer’s employer provided her with a duly-completed Form T2200 for the 2015 taxation year, signed by her employer’s chief financial officer. The form attested to the fact that her employment contract required her to use a portion of her home for work, and that the percentage of her employment duties performed from home was 90 per cent.
Occasionally, the taxpayer was required to travel to her employer’s Oakville office for “one-on-one” meetings with her boss, meetings with the entire marketing team and “town hall” meetings organized by the company for all its employees across the country and beyond. The taxpayer did not have her own office or workstation at the Oakville office and when she did need a place to work when she was there , she would either use the boardroom, if it was empty, or her boss’s office, if available.
In his analysis, the judge referred to a 2003 case involving employment travel, which concluded that the cost of travel by employees between two employment-related locations was not personal travel but rather was considered properly tax deductible as employment-related automobile travel.
They are tax deductible. End of. If the CRA doesn't like it, they can know I don't like them sticking a gun to my face and robbing me of half my pay so they can sprinkle it on so many left wing sociology majors gaming on the couch.
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