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B-186814 1 (1977-03-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadedl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: i i I 1% I; I '- I I aWfi. Wotherpoon 's Div.Pers. 3. THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECIMION . . a THEC UNITMO STATERS WAHINGTON, D.C. 20 48 FILE: 3-186814 DATE: March 8, 19TT MATTER LF: Richard D. Abeyta - Relocation Erpenses - Closing Costs Employee who purchased residence at new duty station incident to tranfer of duty station claims closing coots paid by seller but included in purchase price. Since closing costs are clearly discernible and separnble from price allocable to realty, both buyer and seller regarded costs as having been paid by buyer, and costs are properly dbcumanted, claim may be paid. I' DIGEST:; I- I This action is in response to a letter dated May ?5, 1976, from LT F. P. Spera. a finance and accounting officer of the Department of the Army, as to the propriety of certifying for paymenat voucher.in the amount of $881.38 representing expenses incurred by Mr. Richard D. Abeyta in connection 'with his purchase of a new home incideat to the trannfer of his official ditty station as an employce of the Department of the Army from Red River Army Depot, Texarkana, Texas, to Edgewood Arsenal, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. The memorandum of settlement, dated September 23, 1976, provides an itemized account of the closing costs, ;howing them as having been paid by the seller of the house. However, two letters from the Vice President of Chesapeake Homes, Inc., the seller, to the Department of the Army state that the closing costs were incorporated into the price of the .ouse and were paid by the buyer, Mr. Abeyta, as part of the purchase price. Paragraph C8350 of Part H, chapter 8, Volume 2, Joint Travel Regulations (JTR) (1973) provides, in pertinent part, that: ' ' * An employee will be entitld tc reibursement for expenses required to be paid by him.ain connection with the sale of his resid.ice at his old duty station; the purchase (including construction) of a residence at his new duty station * ' * after he has signed the required transpurtation agreement and provided that: I I

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