The IRS has announced the 2021 standard mileage rates for business, medical, and other uses of an automobile. For 2021, the business standard mileage rate is 56 cents per mile (a 1.5 cent decrease from the 57.5 cents rate for 2020), and the rate when an automobile is used to obtain medical care —which may be deductible under Code § 213 if it is primarily for, and essential to, the medical care—will be 16 cents per mile for 2021.