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B-191662 1 (1978-12-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadgtc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: F DECISION FILE: B-191662 MATTER OF: DIGEST: Expenses of extending a gas line and venting a clothes dryer, connecting a refrigerator ice-maker water line, and installing a telephone jack are not reimbursable as part of miscellaneous expenses allowances since all items involved structural alteration or remodeling of living quarters. This decision is in response to an appeal by Mr. Prescott A. Berry, an employee of the Department of the Treasury, Internal---- Revenue Service, from Settlement Certificate Z-2473522, dated October 5, 1977. By that Settlement, our Claims Division denied Mr. Berry's claim for reimbursement of the cost of connecting.a gas line and installing a vent for a clothes dryer, connecting a refrigerator ice-maker water line, and installing a telephone jack in his new residence to which he had moved as a result of his transfer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Phoenix, Arizona. Our Claims Division denied reimbursement for the cost of installing the telephone jack on the basis of paragraph 2-3.1c of the Federal Travel Regulations (FTR) which provides that costs or expenses incurred for reasons of personal taste or preference and not required because of the move are not reimbursable as miscellaneous expenses. In response, Mr. Berry cited B-170589, November 13, 1970, where we held that an employee could be reimbursed for the cost of duplicating the telephone service he had at his former resi- dence. He argues that since the installation for the jack merely enabled him to obtain the same level of service he had at his former residence, he should be entitled to reimbursement for that expense on the basis of B-170589, supra. In that decision, however, the employee was reimbursed for extensions, a princess phone, and two cords, but no charge for jacks was involved. Our Claims Division properly denied Mr. Berry's claim for reimbursement for the expense of installing the telephone jack but did so on the wrong basis. This expense falls within the purview of FTR paragraph 2-3.lc(13)which, in pertinent part, prohibits reimbursement for costs incurred in connection with structural alterations, remodeling or modernizing of living quarters, garages or other buildings to accommodate privately owned automobiles, appliances or equipment * * *. See B-164111, June 10, 1968. ? THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL .: . OF THE U.NITED STATE8.._- WASHINGTON, 0.C. 205-48 DATE: December 28, 1978 Prescott A. Berry -rReimbursement of Miscellaneous Relocation Expense

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