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Tax Deduction & Mileage Tracker
Keep your self-employed tax records organised all year in one offline app: income, deductible expenses, mileage, receipt photos, quarterly estimates, home office and a year-end summary for your accountant.
Includes the hosted web app, a downloadable offline copy (Tax-Deduction-Mileage-Tracker.html), the Quick-Start Guide (PDF) and a personal license.
Deduction Desk is a Tax Deduction & Mileage Tracker that runs in your web browser. It's made for freelancers, 1099 contractors, Etsy and online sellers, crafters, creatives and side-hustlers. It's a single file: it works offline, updates every total instantly and saves your work automatically.
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Everything it does, in detail.
Every feature listed here is in the app today.
- Net profit for the tax year, with an income vs deductions trend chart (hover for details)
- Tax set-aside panel: estimated tax at YOUR rate, paid so far, next due date and days left
- KPI cards: income, deductible expenses, mileage deduction and receipts attached
- Monthly income vs deductions bars, a "where deductions come from" donut and income by source
- Insights: upcoming estimates, expenses missing receipts and month-on-month changes
- Log payouts and client payments with source/platform, client, method and notes
- Record the fees platforms keep (Etsy, PayPal, Stripe…) so gross, fees and net are all clear
- Ranked income sources and monthly trend; search and filter
- Expense categories you can rename, add, switch deductible on/off and label with a reference
- Presets: United States (Schedule C-style categories with line references as a guide), United Kingdom (self-assessment-style) or Other country (generic)
- Business-use % for mixed items, e.g. a phone plan used 60% for work
- Attach a photo or scan of each receipt, stored privately on your device, and view it in a receipt gallery
- "Missing receipts" list for deductible expenses over an amount you choose
- Trips with date, business purpose, from/to, distance or odometer readings, vehicle and notes
- Round-trip option, personal trips kept separate, miles or kilometres
- Saved routes: log a regular trip again in one tap
- Uses YOUR rate per mile/km (set it to the rate you're allowed to claim), with per-trip overrides
- Monthly distance chart and a full mileage log CSV
- Four 3-month periods from your tax-year start, each with income, deductions, profit and an estimate at your combined rate
- Editable due dates, payments you've made, and Covered / Part paid / Past due status
- Home office calculator: flat rate per area (with optional cap and months used) or share of actual household costs
- Clearly labelled as planning estimates, not tax advice
- A printable summary for your accountant: income by source, fees, expenses by category with references, mileage by month, home office, quarterly estimates and net profit
- Print or save as PDF from your browser
- CSV exports: income, expenses, mileage log and category summary (open in Excel or Google Sheets)
- Any tax year, or a custom year start such as April 6, e.g. "2026/27"
- 5 colour themes: Ledger Teal, Sage Paper, Cobalt, Clay and Midnight Ledger (dark)
- 27 currencies (incl. USD, GBP, EUR, CAD, AUD, AED, SAR, OMR, INR and more)
- Search everything with Ctrl/Cmd + K
- Backup & Restore to a single file (includes your receipt images)
- Sample data to explore first, then reset and start fresh
Includes the hosted web app, a downloadable offline copy (Tax-Deduction-Mileage-Tracker.html), the Quick-Start Guide (PDF) and a personal license.
Tested in Google Chrome on desktop and phone-size screens; installs to iPhone Home Screen from Safari.
Your data is saved in the browser on each device; use Backup & Restore to move it.











