Originally Posted by
Curby
Anyone familiar with the contract able to shed any additional light on this subject? The only place I see a restriction is when I attempt to file the expense report....it says NO CAN DO. That might be an error. If there is no restriction - even if the company meant for there to be a restriction - then we should not be limited on this in any way.
I do not subscribe to the "its always been that way" line of thinking. If the contract allows for the expense, we should be spending. There is a specific list of restrictions in Chapter 8 and domicile issues are not addressed.
Thanks
I think this is an issue controlled by IRS rules rather than anything we might put in our contract.
The company gets a tax deduction on business travel expenses they pay on behalf of their employees. Business travel expenses by definition must be incurred away from domicile. Travel expenses that are considering commuting expenses don't allow the company the same tax benefit. According to the IRS, your FedEx domicile is your "tax home". Expenses incurred commuting from your "family home" to your "tax home" are not deductible for us and if FedEx pays them, we must treat them as income. That's why we check the box on deviation expenses to/from our domicile and those events are treated as taxable income because they are commuting expenses, not business expenses. Beyond that, local (tax home) expenses (i.e. within domicile) paid by the company are treated differently by the IRS and it's up to the employer if they want to pay those expenses on our behalf, whether we incur taxes or not. They choose not to.