I'm a teacher and work at two different schools. My employer reimburses us for mileage at the Federal rate, however they only reimburse whatever is in excess of our round trip between home and base school.
Home to base school is 8 miles. Home to my secondary school is 4 miles. Base to secondary is 3 miles. According to the rules, that means I'm on the hook for the first 16 miles I drive each day.
One day per week, I'm at secondary in the morning and base in the afternoon, bringing that day's commute to 15 miles. Even though my job requires me to travel 3 miles during my work hours, I'm being told I'm not allowed to claim anything because I'm in the hook for the first 16.
So my questions: is this policy consistent with federal guidelines? Would I be better off waiving reimbursement from the school system and claiming it on my taxes (assuming I'm already meeting the standard deduction)?
This came to my attention because HR just went though and switched the base school of some of my colleagues to be whichever school is furthest from their home. It's a petty way of saving maybe a couple hundred dollars in a $1.3 billion budget. I'm asking because I want my union to fight to change the policy.
Submitted November 05, 2017 at 06:06AM by thefalcon3a http://ift.tt/2ze8GtZ
