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B-194791 1 (1980-03-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadibr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DECISION FILE: B-194791 A DATE: March 10, 1980 MATTER OF: Internal Revenue Service Weekend Return Travel L eApw DIGEST: Employee on temporary duty may be reimbursed for voluntary return travel on nonworkdays not to exceed what employee would have been allowed at temporary duty site. See Federal Travel Regulations, paras. 1-7.5c and 1-8.4f. Agency may determine what would have been allowed based on average amounts claimed during previous week. In addition, an employee who stays with friends or relatives during week at no cost to Government may use commercial lodging rates in determining what would have been allowed if he had remained at temporary duty site. This decision is in response to a request from Joseph T. Davis, AI AssistantComm is *o0 ne r ( Re s o urce M an a g emen t) In ter n a y pe IR , epartment of the T rea sury, or our decso concerning the reimbursement of a traveler on temporary duty who voluntarily returns to his residence on nonworkdays. The issue presented for our decision is whether the traveler in computing his weekend return travel reim- bursement may use commercial lodging rates in determining what he would have spent at the temporary duty site for per diem or actual subsistence expenses. Under the authority of the Federal Travel Regulations (FPMIR 101-7), paras. 1-7.5c and 1-8.4f, an employee on temporary duty may voluntarily return on nonworkdays to his official station or place of abode and be reimbursed for transportation and per diem not to exceed the per diem and travel expenses which would have been allowed had the employee remained at his temporary duty station. By regulation, the IRS has interpreted the phrase which would have been allowable as being the average amounts claimed for full days in the week preceding the return travel. See Howard B. Johnson, B-195602,.dated today, holding that this is an appropriate method to determine constructive costs. In this regard, the IRS questions whether an employee-who stays with friends or family during the weekdays at no cost to the Government should have his reimbursement for voluntary weekend return travel limited to the average amounts claimed during that week. The IRS points 0 THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATEB 4 WASHINGTON. D. C. 20548 111151

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