🩺 Built for Independent Home Health & Visiting Nurses

The Complete Business App for 1099 Caregivers

Track every drive between patients, pharmacy runs, supply pickups, and family visits. Manage revenue, scrubs, PPE, equipment, and profit — all in one app. IRS-compliant mileage logs and Schedule C reports built in. Free 14-day trial.

✓ No credit card required ✓ IRS-compliant logs ✓ Your data, your Drive

📊 Independent Caregiver — Example Tax Savings

Between patient homes 9,000 mi
Pharmacy & supply runs 2,500 mi
CE classes & family visits 2,500 mi
Total business miles 14,000 mi
IRS rate (2026) × 72.5¢/mile
Tax Deduction $10,150

Independent Caregivers Leave Thousands Behind

You drive between every patient, buy your own scrubs and supplies, and carry the licenses and insurance — but without a system, half of it goes unclaimed every April.

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The Miles Between Patients Never Get Logged

Six visits a day, eighty miles in your own car, all deductible. But "I'll write it down later" doesn't survive April, and a guess won't survive an audit. The IRS requires a contemporaneous log with date, destination, business purpose, and miles.

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Scrubs & Supplies Quietly Disappear

Scrubs, PPE, gloves, sanitizer, blood pressure cuffs, transfer belts. Every one is deductible — and every one tends to be a crumpled receipt in a glove box, a charge on last month's debit card, a memory by next quarter.

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1099 Is the Edge — But Only If You Use It

W-2 colleagues can't deduct any of this — TCJA suspended unreimbursed employee expenses. As a 1099 caregiver you have a real edge. The catch is that the edge only counts if you actually track and claim it.

Everything an Independent Caregiver Needs — in One App

TrakMiles Pro replaces the mileage notebook, the receipt shoebox, the revenue spreadsheet, and the year-end tax-prep scramble — all on your phone, all working together.

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Automatic GPS Mileage Tracking

Detects when you start driving and logs every trip between patients, pharmacy stops, supply runs, and family visits. No buttons, no forgetting. Each trip captured with date, location, distance, and a purpose you can label in two taps.

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Vehicle Auto-Detection

If you swap between cars, TrakMiles pairs with each vehicle's Bluetooth and tags trips automatically. Personal trips stay separate from business — clean records for both.

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Revenue Tracking by Patient or Family

Log what each patient or family pays, when payments hit, and what's outstanding. Know exactly which clients are profitable after the drive time.

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Expense Management with Categories

Track scrubs, PPE, gloves and sanitizer, client-care equipment, continuing education, licenses, insurance, and phone use. Categorized for Schedule C automatically.

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Profit & Loss Reports

See real profit — revenue minus all expenses and mileage — by week, month, quarter, or year. Know whether your schedule actually nets, not just whether you were busy.

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Schedule C Tax Preparation

Maps mileage and expenses to Schedule C line items automatically. Compares standard mileage vs actual expenses so you claim whichever's larger. Export to PDF or CSV for your accountant.

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Company Mode — Coordinate Multiple Caregivers

Running a small home care service or coordinating several 1099 caregivers? Company Mode breaks miles, hours, revenue, and profit down per caregiver — so the schedule actually maps to dollars instead of guesses.

🩺 Miles Independent Caregivers Can Deduct

🏠 Patient to Patient
Every drive from one patient's home to the next, all day long
💊 Pharmacy Stops
Picking up prescriptions and durable medical equipment on a patient's behalf
🛒 Supply & PPE Runs
Trips to restock gloves, masks, sanitizer, and care supplies
🎓 Continuing Education
Driving to CE classes, certifications, and license renewals
👨‍👩‍👧 Family Meetings & Home Visits
Care-planning visits with families, intake assessments, follow-ups
✅ TrakMiles Captures All of These
GPS tracks from the moment you leave to when you return — every mile, automatically

How Much Are Your Business Miles Worth?

At the 2026 IRS rate of 72.5¢ per mile, every untracked drive between patients is money you'll never get back.

72.5¢
IRS rate per mile (2026)
$10,150
Deduction at 14,000 miles
$2,233
Federal tax saved at 22% bracket
14,000
Typical caregiver year miles
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Caregiver Tax & Mileage Questions

What independent home health aides, private-duty caregivers, and contract nurses need to know about tracking miles and business expenses.

Can home health aides and visiting nurses deduct mileage?
It depends on how you're paid. 1099 / independent caregivers — private-duty CNAs, contract nurses, self-employed home health aides, gig caregiving platforms — can deduct all business miles at 72.5¢/mile for 2026. W-2 agency employees generally cannot deduct unreimbursed business expenses on their federal return under the 2017 TCJA (a few states still allow it on the state return). Driving from home to your first patient is a non-deductible commute; the drives between patients afterward are fully deductible. See our full caregiver tax guide for the breakdown.
What other expenses can a 1099 caregiver deduct?
Scrubs and uniform cleaning, medical supplies and PPE (gloves, masks, sanitizer), client-care equipment (blood pressure cuffs, stethoscopes, transfer belts), continuing education and certifications, professional licenses and dues, malpractice/liability insurance, business use of phone and internet, and a home office if you have a space used regularly and exclusively for the business. Self-employed health insurance premiums are also generally deductible as an adjustment to income.
Can visiting nurses claim a home office deduction?
Yes, if a space in your home is used regularly and exclusively for the business side of your work — scheduling, charting, billing, or supply storage. The simplified method is $5 per square foot up to 300 square feet, for a maximum deduction of $1,500 per year. The "exclusively" rule is the catch: the kitchen table where you sometimes do paperwork doesn't qualify; a dedicated desk in a spare bedroom that's used only for the business does.
How many business miles does an independent caregiver drive?
A busy independent caregiver typically drives 60–120 business miles a day — between patients, supply and pharmacy runs, and family visits. Across a year that's commonly 12,000–20,000+ business miles. At the 2026 rate, 14,000 miles is roughly $10,150 in deductions — about $2,200 in actual federal tax savings at the 22% bracket, plus a reduction in self-employment tax. Use our free calculator to see your exact number.
Standard mileage rate or actual expenses?
For most caregivers driving a personal car the standard rate (72.5¢/mile for 2026) is simpler and often larger. Actual expenses can win for higher-cost vehicles with heavy maintenance. Either way, a contemporaneous mileage log with date, destination, business purpose, and miles is required — that's what TrakMiles Pro keeps for you automatically.
Is TrakMiles Pro free for independent caregivers?
TrakMiles Pro offers a 14-day free trial with no credit card required. After the trial, monthly ($4.99/mo) or annual ($34.99/yr) gives unlimited GPS mileage tracking, Vehicle Auto-Detection, revenue tracking, expense management, P&L reports, time clock, and Schedule C tax prep. One app replaces the notebook, the receipt shoebox, and the April scramble.

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