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B-194166 1 (1980-01-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadhxu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 6-A DEEC1ON FILE: B-194166 MATTER DIGEST: - THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, .C. 20545E DATE: January 22, 1980 OF: Thomas D. Salter -tConstructive Travel Expensej- Rental Car Employee, who voluntarily returned home from temporary duty on weekend, may not include constructive cost of car rental for period in which no official business was performed. Employee contends Government would have saved money if car had been retained over weekend since constructive cost of returning car to rental agency would have exceeded cost of returning. However, rental car was used by employee incident to travel to and from airport and such cost equals or exceeds alleged constructive savings. This action is in response to a request for reconsideration by Mr. Thomas D. Salter of our decision B-l94l66,i'unre-4, 979. Mr. Salter's claim for constructive cost of a car rental was denied because no official business was performed during the weekend when he voluntarily returned home from temporary duty. Mr. Salter has provided a cost comparison in support of his contention that it would have been impractical to return the rental car over the weekend. The cost comparison includes traveltime, mileage, round-trip bus fare, and a rental car drop-off charge. Mr. Salter also says that in order to return the car over the weekend, he would have had to drive the car downtown to the hotel. The reverse procedure would be used to pick up the car on the following workday. Mr. Salter also says that Internal Revenue Service (IRS) travel regulations allow the use of Government-furnished vehicles on nonworkdays; therefore, such use should also apply to commercially rented vehicles. The IRS travel regulation, Internal Revenue Manual Transmittal 1763, section 211(7), is similar in nature to paragraph 1-2.6a of the Federal Travel Regulations (FTR) (FPMR 101-7) (May 1973), which provides that Government-owned or Government-furnished vehicles may be used by employees in certain instances. '1 t 4_6 7 v No

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