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[Questions Concerning Use of Super Saver Fare Airline Ticket]

B-216261 Published: Feb 04, 1985. Publicly Released: Feb 04, 1985.
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An advance decision was requested concerning whether an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employee was entitled to the amount the government saved by the employee's use of the return portion of a round-trip super saver ticket for voluntary return to his permanent duty station over nonworkdays. The employee claimed that he saved the government money when he used the ticket to return to his permanent duty station for a weekend and then drove to the temporary duty site after the weekend and returned from the temporary duty assignment in the motor vehicle of a fellow employee. IRS regulations provide that, when an employee voluntarily returns to his place of residence over nonworkdays, reimbursement for transportation and per diem expenses is limited to the per diem that would have been allowed had the employee remained at the temporary duty site. Accordingly, there was no basis for including the difference between regular coach fare and the super saver fare in the computation of the maximum allowable reimbursement for his voluntary return to his permanent duty station. GAO found that, while the employee did save the government some money for his return travel, it did not provide a basis for increasing his reimbursement. Accordingly, payment on the reclaim voucher was not authorized.

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