Talk:Business mileage reimbursement rate

Two separate concepts
The rate published by the Internal Revenue Service with respect to the amount of deduction a taxpayer may take for the business use of a vehicle has nothing directly to do with the reimbursement rate that a private employer may allow an employee. As a practical matter, many or even most private employers do use the IRS rate -- but they're not required to do so. In other words, a private employer could reimburse an employee at a rate of zero cents per mile or at a rate of a thousand cents per mile -- it does not matter, as that's simply an agreement between employer and employee. The fact that many employers happen to use the IRS mileage deduction rate as their employee reimbursement rate is a separate point. I made some edits that will hopefully clarify the article on this point.

I am not familiar with the GSA rate for reimbursement of government employees that is mentioned in the article. Apparently, that employee reimbursement rate is tied to the IRS mileage rate for business deductions in some legal fashion. Famspear (talk) 17:24, 24 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Note: Yesterday (June 23, 2008), the Internal Revenue Service issued Announcement 2008-63, which increases the business deduction rate to 58.5 cents per mile, effective for July 1 through December 31, 2008. I have updated the chart in the article accordingly.


 * Whether the GSA employee reimbursement rate has also been changed or not, I do not know. I therefore have not changed the article on that point. Famspear (talk) 17:29, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Name change for article?
Since we're really talking about two different concepts (i.e., tax deduction rates versus employee reimbursement rates), we might want to consider changing the title of the article. The IRS "tax deduction" rate is not necessarily the same as an "employee reimbursement" rate. Computing an "employee reimbursement" is not even the primary purpose of the IRS rate.

Also, for purposes of U.S. federal income tax deductions, there are other IRS mileage rates besides the "business" rate. There's the medical mileage rate, the charitable contribution mileage rate, and the moving expense mileage rate. Postal Service employees used to have their own tax deduction rate as well (maybe they still do; I haven't checked lately).

Maybe the article could be re-titled more generically as: Standard mileage rate. Then, the article could expand and break the topic down, as follows:


 * (A) Standard mileage rates for allowance of U.S. federal income tax deductions: Business standard mileage rate; Medical mileage rate; Charitable contribution mileage rate; Moving expense mileage rate.


 * (B) U.S. employee reimbursement expense rates: Employers using IRS business rate; Employers using GSA rate.

Any thoughts? Famspear (talk) 17:43, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

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