Enter your miles and see your deduction at the IRS standard mileage rate. Works for business, medical, or charitable driving, for any tax year from 2019 through 2026. Free, no sign up.
This calculator multiplies your miles by the IRS standard mileage rate for the year and trip type you pick. The result is the dollar amount you can deduct. For self-employed business driving, that deduction goes on Schedule C, Line 9 (Car and truck expenses) and reduces both your income tax and your self-employment tax.
The IRS sets a standard mileage rate each year that covers the full cost of driving: fuel, depreciation, insurance, and maintenance. Instead of saving every gas and repair receipt, you track miles and multiply by the rate. For most freelancers and 1099 workers this is simpler than the actual expense method and produces a comparable or larger deduction.
| Tax year | Business | Medical / moving | Charitable |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jul-Dec) | 76¢ | 23.5¢ | 14¢ |
| 2026 (Jan-Jun) | 72.5¢ | 20.5¢ | 14¢ |
| 2025 | 70¢ | 21¢ | 14¢ |
| 2024 | 67¢ | 21¢ | 14¢ |
| 2023 | 65.5¢ | 22¢ | 14¢ |
| 2022 (Jul-Dec) | 62.5¢ | 22¢ | 14¢ |
| 2022 (Jan-Jun) | 58.5¢ | 18¢ | 14¢ |
| 2021 | 56¢ | 16¢ | 14¢ |
| 2020 | 57.5¢ | 17¢ | 14¢ |
| 2019 | 58¢ | 20¢ | 14¢ |
The IRS announces each year's rate in late autumn via an IRS Notice. In 2026 it also changed the rate partway through the year: business miles driven January 1 through June 30 use 72.5 cents, and miles driven from July 1 on use 76 cents. If your miles span both halves, run the calculator once for each half and add the results. The charitable rate is fixed by law at 14 cents and does not change with inflation. For the full background on the current rate, see our IRS standard mileage rate 2026 reference page.
Business miles are the most valuable and the most common. They cover driving that is ordinary and necessary for self-employed work: trips to clients, between job sites, to buy supplies, or to a temporary work location. Commuting from home to a regular workplace does not count. This deduction is for Schedule C filers, not W-2 employees.
Medical and moving miles use a lower rate (20.5 cents through June 30, 2026, and 23.5 cents from July 1). Medical mileage is deductible as an itemized medical expense for travel to care, subject to the medical expense threshold. The moving rate applies only to active-duty members of the Armed Forces (and certain intelligence community members) moving under orders.
Charitable miles are driving you do in service of a qualified charity, deductible at the statutory 14 cents per mile if you itemize.
To claim a mileage deduction you need a contemporaneous mileage log recording, for each trip: the date, the destination, the business purpose, and the miles driven. "Contemporaneous" means recorded at or near the time of the trip, not reconstructed from memory at tax time. The IRS can disallow the entire deduction if you cannot produce adequate records in an audit. A digital log from a mileage tracking app satisfies this requirement and is far harder to lose than a paper notebook.
Your mileage deduction lowers your Schedule C net profit, which lowers your self-employment tax. Once you know your deductible miles, the Self Employment Tax Estimator helps you figure your quarterly estimated payments so you avoid IRS underpayment penalties.
Self Employment Toolkit logs each trip, applies the current IRS rate automatically, and exports a complete mileage log and a year-end Schedule C bundle. Free to start.
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