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Weekend Personal Travel

B-205696 Jun 15, 1982
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An authorized certifying officer for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) requested an advance decision on the propriety of paying an employee's expense claim. The employee, whose headquarters were in Alabama, performed temporary duty in Washington D.C. during the month of August 1981. On a weekend the employee flew to Maine and stayed with relatives. He claimed no subsistence expenses for this time, but estimated his savings to the government to be equal to 2 days of the average subsistence allowance he had received during the previous week. The employee claimed the amount saved as a comparative cost computation in connection with the purchase price of his airline ticket. The question presented was whether the transportation cost for the round-trip travel to Maine and return to Washington may be reimbursed through the comparative cost and cost-savings computation. GAO stated that, when an employee on temporary duty travels on his nonworkdays to a location other than his headquarters or residence, the regulations governing reimbursement of round-trip transportation and subsistence expenses are not applicable. Accordingly, payment of the claim was not authorized.

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