{"text":"I’ll start off by saying I am 21 and I have never fully understood taxes. I’m a company driver. I know the government takes money from each paycheck and if you claim 0 then at the end of the year you will most likely get some money back. I also know that truck drivers get Per Diem which is around $60 a day they can claim to be tax free. My questions are as follows. 1. Say I drive 300 days a years. So that’s 18k that is tax free. At the end of the year if I do NOT itemize can I still claim that 18k?\n 2. My company offers a thing where they pay me 12 cents not taxed of my 40cents a mile. So I’d get a bit more money each paycheck. Would this be a good thing to sign up for or would it be the same as getting a bigger refund check at the end of the year? \n\nBasically. Help me understand how this Per Diem thing works so I can figure out what works best for me.","pics":"[]","canComment":true}