Mileage Reimbursement from Employer

[jhayx7]

My company reimburses me for my travel no matter what. $0.485 a mile.

 

[JS80]

If the client is 30 miles away and you live 10 miles from work, you should get 20 miles of reimbursement.

 

[bctbct]

Take cab, submit bill.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: SoulAssassin

Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo

Originally posted by: FoBoT
if they did reimburse you for your "normal commute", then it has to be reported to the IRS as income, it isn't a business expense for people to come to work, ie normal commuting to work

Out of curiosity, why isn't commuting to work deductible? IMO, it is an expense to get to work, at least compared to working from home.

Same reason you can't deduct things like dry cleaning.

If you have a set of clothes solely for the purpose of work - isn't that an expense? That isn't something you'd buy otherwise, right?

Clothes might be stretching it a little, but I'm still not convinced on commuting. You do it only so you can work, why can't that be an expense?

If it's simply because they say so, well that's fine.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo
If it's simply because they say so, well that's fine.

Because it would kill the economy and drive prices through the roof.

As for the clothes thing, employers understand if you have to maintain suits/dry cleaning and compensate you accordingly. If you're in sales, you have a budget for attaire.

 

[RichUK]

EDIT: Nevermind, this is for private car use. I forget the rates my company offer, but IIRC you end up making money off of each mile.

I currently use a fuel card.

 

[thomsbrain]

our policy is that you are always reimbursed as though you had left from the office, no matter where you left from. the exception is going from one site straight to the other, in which case you don't bill a phantom trip to the office. so if i drive from my home to site A, then B, then back home, i bill from the office to A, to B, to the office. the other exception is for on-call trips, where you can bill all the miles, from your home. the idea there is you're not commuting; you're on the job from the second you receive your page, and any mileage is billable.

this arrangement always works in the favor of the employee. the worst case scenario is that the first site is directly on the opposite side of the office from your home, and then it is no different than commuting to the office and leaving from there. any other location allows you to take a more direct route, and actually drive less miles than you would have if you had commuted to the office, then to the site. also, some sites are on the way home, so you get to bill for the mileage back to the office, even though you're headed in the other direction (free miles home). of course, sometimes you actually need to go to the office first thing or last thing in the day, but even then you're just billing your actual mileage, and the commute is on you.

i get about $800/month in mileage reimbursement, and pocket about 2/3 of it after gas costs (though there are maintenance and depreciation factors to account for).

 

[SampSon]

I get reimbursed for all out of primary county jobs, including all mileage used going through my primary county, to and from.

 

[radioouman]

I'm required to drive my personal car to our customer's site everyday. It is round trip of 120 miles per day. I can claim 90 miles per day. My employer reimburses me at a rate of $.32 / mile. They will not get me a company car.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: radioouman
I'm required to drive my personal car to our customer's site everyday. It is round trip of 120 miles per day. I can claim 90 miles per day. My employer reimburses me at a rate of $.32 / mile. They will not get me a company car.

Claim the overage on your taxes.

 

[Tsaico]

Our policy is the mileage that is re-imbursable is from the office to the site, regardless of distance from home. So even if I have to go to a place (which isn't often) that is two blocks from my house, but 5 miles from my office, I get re-imbursed five miles. My company passes the cost to the client anyhow who is still getting what they paid for, a technician on site at a given time period.

 

[Cattlegod]

our policy is if the place you are going is > 50 miles from your work location, you get reimbursed.

however, i work for an auto manufacturer, so it usually isn't hard to get a car to drive wherever I need to go.

 

[bmacd]

Our inner-office policy is that you have to drive more than 50 miles one way, you get one meal comp'ed, and you get paid $.445/mile.

 

[mrrman]

I am reimbursed on all mileage as long as I am going to a customer, be it from home or work. There is no difference.

 

[preslove]

That's some bad management. Penny ass bullsh!t like that decreases morale to the point of making any costs savings not worth it.

 

[radioouman]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: radioouman
I'm required to drive my personal car to our customer's site everyday. It is round trip of 120 miles per day. I can claim 90 miles per day. My employer reimburses me at a rate of $.32 / mile. They will not get me a company car.

Claim the overage on your taxes.

Tried. It falls below the percentage for my adjusted gross income, so I see no benefit... I lost $3000 last year due to this.

 

[Uppsala9496]

My company calculates the mileage from work to the end location.
For me the airport (one of the few places I go for work) is 11.5 miles from work, and 12.5 from home. I only get paid the 11.5 from work.

I have a few instances where it was closer to go somewhere from home, however I have always been able to list the distance from work. It doesn't always work out in my favor though.