How does OdoTax know which drives are for work?
You decide
Each drive waits in your list until you say what it was: Business or Personal, or Commute, Medical, Charity or Moving. Only business, medical, charity and moving drives count towards a deduction. Moving is only for a move on orders: active-duty military moving under PCS orders and, from 2026, members of the intelligence community who relocate for a change of assignment.
Sorting a batch
When drives are waiting, Home offers to Classify them, one at a time:
- On Home, tap Classify — the card says how many drives are waiting
- Tap Business or Personal: the drive is filed with the last purpose you picked for that type, and the next one comes up
- The drive you just filed stays in sight under the next one, with ↶ and Change
Skip for now leaves a drive unsorted for later.
Sorting a batch
When drives are waiting, Home offers to Classify them, one at a time:
- On Home, tap Classify — the card says how many drives are waiting
- Tap Business or Personal: the drive is filed with the last purpose you picked for that type, and the next one comes up
- The drive you just filed stays in sight under the next one, with ↶ and Change
Skip for now leaves a drive unsorted for later.
Step 1 of 3 · Classify
Sorting a batch
In Trips, the To classify tab lists what is waiting. Classify one row at a time, or tick several and set them together from the bar that appears.
Taking a suggestion
When OdoTax has a guess, the map on the card says so — Looks like business, say. Tap Apply to file the drive that way.
Taking a suggestion
When OdoTax has a guess, the map on the card says so — Looks like business, say. Tap Apply to file the drive that way.
With a purpose
- Press and hold Business — or Personal
- Pick the purpose, and the drive is filed with it
The purpose goes into the report beside the drive. Name your own in Settings → Custom purposes.
With a purpose
- Press and hold Business — or Personal
- Pick the purpose, and the drive is filed with it
The purpose goes into the report beside the drive. Name your own in Settings → Custom purposes.
Step 1 of 2 · Press and hold Business
Medical, charity or moving
- Tap Other deduction
- Pick Medical, Charity or Moving
Each is deducted at its own IRS rate. Moving is only for a move on orders: active-duty military moving under PCS orders and, from 2026, members of the intelligence community who relocate for a change of assignment. A commute is set on the drive’s own page — How do I change or delete a drive?
Medical, charity or moving
- Tap Other deduction
- Pick Medical, Charity or Moving
Each is deducted at its own IRS rate. Moving is only for a move on orders: active-duty military moving under PCS orders and, from 2026, members of the intelligence community who relocate for a change of assignment. A commute is set on the drive’s own page — How do I change or delete a drive?
Step 1 of 3 · Other deduction
Undo or change the last one
The drive you just filed shows under the next one:
- Tap ↶ to put it back in the queue
- Or tap Change to file it as something else — Personal, Business or Other — or to put it back with Return to queue
Parking, tolls, a note or a vehicle you added stay on the drive after an undo.
Undo or change the last one
The drive you just filed shows under the next one:
- Tap ↶ to put it back in the queue
- Or tap Change to file it as something else — Personal, Business or Other — or to put it back with Return to queue
Parking, tolls, a note or a vehicle you added stay on the drive after an undo.
Step 1 of 3 · ↶ puts it back
Parking and tolls
- Tap Costs on the card
- Type what you paid for Parking and Tolls, and tap Done
They are added to the drive’s deduction — the potential at the top goes up by them — and listed with the drive in your reports.
Parking and tolls
- Tap Costs on the card
- Type what you paid for Parking and Tolls, and tap Done
They are added to the drive’s deduction — the potential at the top goes up by them — and listed with the drive in your reports.
Step 1 of 3 · Costs
A note
- Tap Note on the card
- Type who, what or why, and tap Done
The note stays with the drive and goes into your reports’ CSV.
A note
- Tap Note on the card
- Type who, what or why, and tap Done
The note stays with the drive and goes into your reports’ CSV.
Step 1 of 2 · Note
Another vehicle
- Tap Vehicle on the card
- Pick the car you drove
A drive goes on the default vehicle unless you pick another, or the car’s Bluetooth or CarPlay says which it was.
Another vehicle
- Tap Vehicle on the card
- Pick the car you drove
A drive goes on the default vehicle unless you pick another, or the car’s Bluetooth or CarPlay says which it was.
Step 1 of 2 · Vehicle
Suggestions
OdoTax suggests where it can: a drive to a place you named Work looks like business, home to work looks like commute, a route you have classified the same way three times looks like the same again, and work hours suggest by the clock. A suggestion is shown on the drive; it is filed only when you accept it.
Letting OdoTax file them
Two things file drives without asking. Auto-classify applies the suggestions as drives arrive — it is off until you turn it on, in Settings → Classification. And a frequent drive files every drive on its route. Either way the drive says so, and any drive can be changed afterwards.
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