2024-63: IRS releases 2025 optional standard mileage rates


Beginning January 1, 2025, the standard mileage rates for the use of a car, van, pickup truck, or panel truck will be:

  • 70 cents per mile driven for business use, up three cents from 2024;
  • 21 cents per mile driven for medical purposes, unchanged from 2024;
  • 21 cents per mile for moving purposes for qualified active-duty members of the Armed Forces, unchanged from 2024; and
  • 14 cents per mile driven in service of charitable organizations, unchanged from 2024.
    (IRS Notice 2025-5)

The rates apply to fully electric and hybrid automobiles, as well as gasoline and diesel-powered vehicles.


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