does seem fair. can you just submit the miles as if you drove them?
2009-06-01 18:05:12
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milage compensation for bikes
With milage compensation up around a half dollar (not sure what it is and I am always suprised at how much it is), is there an "official" amount for business related travel on a bicycle? Has anyone ever tried to collect on it? It only seems fair!
2009-06-01 17:58:44
mileage compensation is explicitly for automobiles.
Although, isn't there a $20 tax credit for bicycling to work?
2009-06-01 18:10:42
wait, are you talking about getting the compensation from the irs or from your employer?
2009-06-01 18:15:43
When I drive my car for work related business, I turn in a milage amount and am compensated by check something around $.50 per mile by my workplace. Has onyone ever heard or done so for a trip by bicycle?
My employers does not choose to do the $20 IRS bike commuter compensation. It comes form the employer, not the IRS.
2009-06-01 18:47:52
Would your employer know, or even need to know, what your mode of transportation is? (I think this is about employer-compensated business travel.) I'd just submit the mileage report, and the less said, the better. Sweat or gasoline, a mile's a mile.
2009-06-01 23:55:14
primanti's is my gasoline
2009-06-02 13:28:07
per BTU, food is more expensive than gasoline.
I had a co-worker who flew his private airplane to visit distant clients and submitted the mileage, and got it reimbursed at the auto rate. For a while, that is, until the HR director heard of it and decided that was just too nonconformist to be allowed in a strictly round-hole company. So she decreed that the company liability insurance wouldn't permit him to fly on company business, even on his own penny, though she never did provide anyone a copy of the policy to prove it. He finally just left the company. Problem solved.
So, y'know. Go for it.
2009-06-02 14:07:41