Originally Posted by
Astrophsx
Correct me if I am wrong here.. is it not more complicated than this?
I believe Ben gave a break down of how he paid for his travel for 2013. If I remember only ~25% of his travel is paid for directly. The rest he states that he gets through a combination of mileage runs, purchasing miles/points directly, and through his (and his family's) credit card sign ups. I'm assuming that these paid flight are also partly mistake fares. In 2014 I believe he probably has obtained points through living at a hotel.
That may be true, but my comments still stands in terms of deducting travel expenses on a tax return, at the very least you need to have revenue to offset those funds or hobby loss comes into play, whatever that expense actually ends up being paid out of pocket and attempting to be deducted.