B-226322: Aug 17, 1987

Federal Travel Regulations Para. 2-6.2d(2)(c) provides that property taxes are nonreimbursable items of miscellaneous expense. The tax in question is. Akers - Reimbursement for Increase in Property Taxes: This decision is in response to a request by Mr. Akers was transferred from Decatur. Akers was unable to sell his former residence from September 1983 to October 1984. The Decatur property was so...

B-226322: Aug 17, 1987

The Department of Agriculture requested a decision concerning a transferred employee's entitlement to reimbursement for a property tax increase resulting from the loss of the homestead exemption on his old residence. GAO held that, since the property taxes were not incurred as part of or necessary to the real estate transaction itself, they were not reimbursable as miscellaneous real estate expens...