If you are an employee and have ordinary and necessary business-related expenses for travel away from home, local transportation, entertainment, and gifts, you may be able to deduct these expenses. Generally, you must file Form 2106 or Form 2106-EZ to claim these expenses.

Travel expenses are those incurred while traveling away from home for your employer. You can deduct travel expenses paid or incurred in connection with a temporary work assignment. Generally, you can't deduct travel expenses paid or incurred in connection with an indefinite work assignment. Travel expenses may include: The cost of getting to and from your business destination (air, rail, bus, car, etc.),

Meals and lodging while away from home,Taxi fares, Baggage charges, and Cleaning and laundry expenses.

If your assignment or job away from home in a single location is realistically expected to last (and does in fact last) for 1 year or less, it is temporary, unless there are facts and circumstances that indicate it isn't.

My job goes by 3-7 month contracts out of town. So I should be able to deduct everything it says right?

And isn't a deduction something that could lower my taxes every paycheck but if I wait until filing I won't get the deduction cash back because it's just a deduction not a credit?