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B-187136 1 (1976-09-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadcxn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DECIS FILE: B- MATTER DIGEST: o THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL ION . . OF .THE UNITED STATES W vAS H-1INGTON. 0.C . 20548 187136 DATE: SEP 3 0 1976 OF: Richard L. Young - Relocation Expenses - Withholding of Income Tax Court of Claims in Allstate Insurance Co. v. United States, 530 F.2d 378 (1976), held that reimbursement of moving expenses was not compensation for services. That decision does not affect withholding of income tax from relocation expense payments for 1970 and following years, because case dealt with tax years 1965-1969, and statute was amended for tax years beginning after December 31, 1969. Section 82 was added to Internal Revenue Code by 1969 amendment and includes reimbursement of moving expenses within gross income as compensation for services. This matter arises from a request for an advance decision dated August 3, 1976, from Ms. Orris C. Huet, an authorized certifying officer of the United States Department of Agriculture, regarding a claim from Mr. Richard L. Young for repayment of income taxes withheld from reimbursed relocation expenses in 1975. Mr. Young contends that the decision in Allstate Insurance Co. v. United States, 530 F.2d 378 (Ct. Cl. 1976), precludes the withholding of Federal income taxes from reimbursement of moving expenses paid to Federal employees. Allstate sued in the Court of Claims to recover money it had withheld, for the years 1965 to 1969, from reimbursement of transferred employees' indirect moving costs. The Court held that reimbursement of moving expenses was not compensation for services within the meaning of 26 U.S.C. § 3401 (1964). There were extensive changes in the tax treatment of moving expenses included in the Tax Reform Act of 1969, Public Law 91-172, 83 Stat. 487, 577-580, December 30, 1969. Among other things, section 82 was added to the Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. S 82 (1970)). That section provides that: There shall be included in gross income (as compensation for services) any amount received or accrued, directly or indirectly, PUBLISHED DECIS10D1 b5Comp.Gen ........ f ,

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