Monica, who is self-employed, travels from her office in boston to lisbon, portugal, on business. her absence of 13 days was spent as follows: thursday depart for and arrive in lisbon friday business transacted saturday and sunday vacationing monday through friday business transacted saturday and sunday vacationing monday business transacted tuesday depart lisbon and return to office in boston a. for tax purposes, monica has spent days on business. b. what difference does it make? if monica's trip satisfies the test or the % test, then her transportation costs be allocated between business and personal. c. could monica have spent more time than she did vacationing on the trip without loss of existing tax benefits? monica satisfy the test. under the test, she could have vacationed for more days assuming that the days did not interfere with the preceding and succeeding days provision.