![]() However, if you use an app like MileIQ that uses GPS to precisely track your mileage, there is no need to record your odometer readings for each trip you take or day you drive. If you use a paper mileage log, you can continue to record your odometer readings. All these templates were created long before GPS was widely available. Paper mileage log templates which you can find in IRS Publication 463, and many places on the Internet continue to include spaces to record odometer readings. The only practical way to track the distance of a drive was to use odometer readings, which would be recorded in a paper mileage log or other paper record. Nor were there mapping applications like Google Maps or mileage apps like MileIQ that could be paired with smartphones to provide accurate and reliable mileage tracking. Before the year 2000, accurate GPS was not available to the general public. ![]() All that is required is an adequate written record of the distance you drove. This is nowhere in the tax law, IRS regulations, IRS publications or elsewhere is there any requirement. You do not have to have your car's odometer readings. This record can be an old-fashioned paper mileage log, but IRS regulations specifically provide that "a record of the business use‚ automobile, prepared in a computer memory device with the aid of a logging program will constitute an adequate record." (IRS Reg. ![]() You should have a written record of these facts made at or near the time the car was driven (at least weekly).
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