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B-194133 1 (1980-04-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadiem0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DECISION FILE: B MATTER DIGEST: 1. 1. - THIE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATEB WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 -194133 DATE: April 16, 1980 OF: William C. Rochon--Miscellaneous expenses allowanc Employee who transferred to new duty station in Mexico may be reimbursed under the miscellane- ous expenses allowance, FTR para. 2-3.1 et seq., for residential rental tax stamps required to register his lease in Mexico. The one-time tax on registration of lease documents was a neces- sary expense of relocating the employee's residence and is not in the nature of those taxes specifically excluded as miscellaneous expenses under FTR para. 2-3. 1c(6). 2. Expense of materials and labor for installing security locks at employee's residence in Mexico because of security problems must be considered a cost of structural alteration of living quarters not reimbursable under FTR para. 2-3. 1c(13) as a part of the miscellaneous expenses allowance. 3. Employee transferred to Mexico who incurred costs for automobile registration, tags, license, and use tax in Texas should not have been reim- bursed for those items under the miscellaneous expense allowance, since the costs were not imposed by Mexico upon bringing the automobile into that country. See FTR para. 2-3. lb(6). Mexico does not require U.S. employees sta- tioned there to register or license their vehicles in other than the State of their former residence. This action is in response to a request by Mr. Edwin J. Fost, Chief, Accounting Section, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Department of Justice, for a determination as to whether certain costs incurred by Mr. William C. Rochon, a DEA employee, may be reimbursed as part of the miscellaneous expenses allowance. Incident to his transfer from Washington, D.C., to Guadalajara, Mexico, in March 1978, Mr. Rochon has ,submitted a reclaim voucher for items of expense, including the following: I 174111 ~jy~c~ ?LTh / 3 q Y1

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