My travel calendar has flights and hotels, but not what I actually did each day. Is that a problem?
I can prove where I traveled, but my records are weak on what happened on each day once I arrived. For most trips I know the broad purpose, but if someone asked me which days were meetings, which days were actual billable services, and which days were just transit, I would have to reconstruct too much from memory.
I am trying to decide whether it is worth rebuilding that now. It feels tedious, but I can also see how the file is much weaker if the calendar shows travel without showing what tax-relevant activity occurred on each date.
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