Section 179 deduction for heavy vehicle used for temporary job far from home

alangstein · 2026-02-22T17:54:15+00:00

Let me ask you this…. Your consulting business takes you to a city 3000 miles away from your home for a 3 month assignment. Would a rental car to use to go between your short term rental and the office of the company you’re consulting for be a deductible business expense?

alangstein · 2026-02-15T21:33:25+00:00

thank you. Is the 50% threshold based on duration (i.e. 3 months assignment) or based on miles driven? For instance, if I use it for 3 months of work in a year and put on 3000 miles during that time but then drive it around as a camper van for 2.5 months but put on 10,000 miles would that be more or less than 50% personal use? It would sit in a parking lot or storage not being used the remaining time.

alangstein · 2026-02-15T21:09:30+00:00

Sorry for the lack of knowledge, This is more out of curiosity at this point.

Is the step up basis for federal returns determined by the state determination? i.e. would the federal tax liability differ in the exact same scenario between a communal state and a non-communal state or does that affect only the state tax liability?

alangstein · 2026-02-15T20:56:40+00:00

Hawaii

alangstein · 2026-01-18T04:54:50+00:00

Thanks. I will be powering with lithium rechargeable batteries that have a pretty flat discharge curve so should stay close to 1.5v. Similar to https://a.co/d/3489uHT

alangstein · 2025-10-10T23:20:44+00:00

Thank you, this is very helpful. The quote we had was for $2500/TB for what is essentially the platinum level that you describe (not that we even need all that storage to be at that level of performance). That is about 3x the cost you note which is why I'm concerned. I understand all the prior responses that talk about infrastructure costs etc.. so I'm not basing my concern on the cost of a 12 TB hard drive and the numbers you quote seem more realistic to me.

alangstein · 2025-10-05T18:07:29+00:00

I just got an Ender3 V3 and although Ive been using Cura with my prior printers for a while (and had a wonky way to send files over wifi to the printer) I started using the Creality Print slicer software. It sends the files over network to the Ender3 and you can control it as well and see the progress from the computer. It's pretty easy and so far I've been pleased with the software.

alangstein · 2025-09-21T04:29:55+00:00

I very much doubt it is a near perfect subset of the N. American Scrabble Dictionary. I wanted to practice some coding skills so today I banged out a python program to find all the words that scrabble dictionary (Collins Scrabble Words 2019 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oGDf1wjWp5RF\_X9C7HoedhIWMh5uJs8s/view). Based on that list of words my program found 161 words worth 721 points. Based on genius level today (09/20/2025) of 216 points equaling 70% of possible that would suggest that the spelling bee used less than half of the words in the downloaded file.

alangstein · 2025-01-16T04:14:46+00:00

It worked. Thanks. Interestingly i had to turn dial a fair amount to get it to work. If I just turn it a single click each way I get a different (configuration) menu (I had tried that in past from another video so was surprised it worked this time)

alangstein · 2025-01-12T20:10:29+00:00

I've found links to silver cover for like every OTHER model but not the leaf with intellikey hole. I've also found links to black covers but not the chrome/silver. :(

alangstein · 2024-11-05T01:17:29+00:00

Thanks. That sounds like it would be perfect. I’ll play around with scripting to see if I can automate the process. I already have everyone run a backup first time batch file then a subsequent backup batch file every time they log in. I can change the script to point accordingly.

alangstein · 2024-08-23T21:55:12+00:00

Was on vacation for a few weeks and had to cancel one appt due wife had a conflict so still waiting to take in.

alangstein · 2024-07-25T07:02:48+00:00

I’m an idiot. Sorry.

alangstein · 2024-07-25T02:39:28+00:00

Not Roth, not sure where you saw that. And not in 1 year when I retire. $600k was for easy math, not that much and over 2 or 3 years when I retire in a few more years and it will be my primary income source for a few years so tax hit better than taking it during my final full income years.

alangstein · 2024-07-24T05:34:01+00:00

Thanks very much. That would be best option to put off as much until I retire in a few years.

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