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B-197051 1 (1980-01-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjrc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: *, COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 0543a B-197051 January 30, 1980 The Honorable Jack Brooks Chairman, Committee on Government Operations H5.O 'm- House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: This is in ,esponse to your letter of November 26, 1979, requesting our comments on H.R. 5722, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 19547to provide that the mileage allowance used for Federal employees shall also be used for determining the mileage allowance deduction for trade or business expenses (section 1), and to amend title 5 of the United States Code to revise certain provisions relating to mileage and per diem expenses of Federal employees (sec- tion 2). Regarding section 1, we understand that the Internal A-Coo'o Revenue Service has administratively adopted the use of the Federal employee mileage allowance for trade and business expense deductions. The Federal employee allowance is de- termined by the General Services Administration (GSA). Ac- cordingly, we believe section 1 primarily concerns those two agencies and have no comments on it. We support enactment of section 2 of the bill because it would make the process for setting travel rates more responsive to changes in travel costs, and in turn help remedy inequities faced by employees who must travel. The existing law specifies maximum rates that may be paid for per diem (section 5702) and mileage (section 5704). These sections must of course be amended periodically to recog- nize inflation when the maximum authorizations become in- adequate to cover travel costs. H.R. 5722 would delete specified rates in the law and allow them to be set by GSA through an administrative process similar to what the State Department does in setting per diem rates for foreign countries and the Defense Department does for United States areas outside the conterminous 48 States. GSA would annually determine travel expenses and recomimend 0 0

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