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:

1. On Home, tap Classify — the card says how many drives are waiting
2. Tap Business or Personal: the drive is filed with the last purpose you picked for that type, and the next one comes up
3. 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:

1. On Home, tap Classify — the card says how many drives are waiting
2. Tap Business or Personal: the drive is filed with the last purpose you picked for that type, and the next one comes up
3. The drive you just filed stays in sight under the next one, with ↶ and Change

Skip for now leaves a drive unsorted for later.

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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

1. Press and hold Business — or Personal
2. 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

1. Press and hold Business — or Personal
2. 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.

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Step 1 of 2 · Press and hold Business

Medical, charity or moving

1. Tap Other deduction
2. 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

1. Tap Other deduction
2. 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?

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Step 1 of 3 · Other deduction

Undo or change the last one

The drive you just filed shows under the next one:

1. Tap ↶ to put it back in the queue
2. 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:

1. Tap ↶ to put it back in the queue
2. 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

1. Tap Costs on the card
2. 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

1. Tap Costs on the card
2. 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

1. Tap Note on the card
2. Type who, what or why, and tap Done

The note stays with the drive and goes into your reports’ CSV.

A note

1. Tap Note on the card
2. 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

1. Tap Vehicle on the card
2. 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

1. Tap Vehicle on the card
2. 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.