Originally Posted by
Adlerdriver
Dave,
I'm not a UAL guy so I don't know what's in the report you want exactly. However, if you're just doing the employee expense portion of your taxes and you just need the one month, it's not that hard to gonkulate the per diem figure based on the government rates (if that's what you need).
There's an article available via ALPA on how to do it. Or, if you want to PM me, I can give you the low down.
As far as paying for per diem numbers: I can tell you, as an almost exclusively international flyer, the company I use gives me numbers that are worth the expense (i.e. they pay for themselves and then some). Their method is IRS approved (and proprietary) and consistently beat the numbers my company or I am able to come up. So, save lots of time, a good bit of $$ and it's easy. That sounds like it's pilot friendly to me. Just a thought.
Adlerdriver,
Thanks very much for your kind offer, however, you must have missed the tongue in cheek problems we have over here at UAL. Many of us just want the system to work as UAL has announced, or to work at all. Yes, doing the report by hand is not all that difficult. I do really appreciate the offer, but not this time.
We are all co-workers as defined by our CEO and treat each and every employee with the upmost respect and dignity we all deserve. As demonstrated daily by our CEO, Co-worker Jeff. (See, this is what I mean.)
If you have not lived the nightmare that is UAL IT, then it's hard to understand our pessimism and frustration. I can file report after report, and 10 unanswered phone calls and E-mails to no avail. The end game is a report to the IRS for failing to provide required documents at tax time.
Play the game....
