About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline
LOG IN
LOG IN

B-184478 1 (1976-05-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaddnc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROL.LER GENERAL DEISION OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D.c. 20s48 FILE: z-18478 DATE: my 3 1976 MATTER OF:0 James A. Woods * Reimbursement for Real Estate Expenses DIGEST: Relocated employee sold residence at old duty station which he owned jointly with his brother. Joint Travel Regulations require that title to residence be held in name of employee alone, or jointly with one or more dependents, or in name of one or more depedients. Under the regulations, an employee's brother is not a dependent or a member of the immediate family. Reimbursement of real estate costs is therefore limited to the extent of employee's interest in residence, in this case 50 percent. This action is in response to the request for an advance decision from a Finance and Accounting Officer at Headquarters U.S. Army Field Artillery Center and Fort Sill, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, forwarded here by the Per Diem and Transportation Allowance Coummittee PDTATAC Control No. 75-20, July 2 1975, regarding the real estate expenses incurred by Mr. James A. Woods, a civilian employee of the Department of the Army. The record indicates that by a travel authorization dated June 12, 1974, Mr. Woods was authorized reimbursement for real estate expenses in accordance with the provisions of the Joint Travel Regu- lations (JTR) pursuant to a change of official duty station from Homewood, Illinois, to North Little Rock, Arkansas. The adminis- trative report states that title to the residence sold at the old duty station was listed in the names of the employee and his brother, Martin E. Woods. The employee states that the reason his brother's name appeared on the title to the property and on the mortgage was to assist the employee in obtaining financing. The employee says that his real estate agent advised him that it would be easier to obtain a mortgage loan as a single person if he had a cosigner. Further, the employee states that his brother had no financial interest in the property, and there appears in the record a notarized statement to that effect from the employee's brother. The record also indicates that the employee alone signed the purchase agreement for the house in 1972, made the downpayment and all subsequent mortgage payments, and paid all expenses in selling the residence c~7 ~'C/

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Contact us for annual subscription options:

Contact Us

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

Log In

profiles profiles most