FDX Taxable Deviation Travel
 

Sinced I live near MEM I rarely deviate so this is somewhat new to me.

CBA 8.C.5.b

"A pilot shall designate on his online expense report any claim for deviation travel expenses incurred while commuting to or from his base. The amount of such claim that is allowed/reimbursed shall be included in the pilot's income as taxable compensation and all applicable taxes will be withheld."

I deviated and took an earlier DH back to MEM (same fare) and just finished doing my expense report. Am I to understand that this is now considered taxable income (the airline fare), and taxes will be deducted based on the cost of the ticket?????:mad:

No, its not taxable income.

Only commuters need to worry about this.


1) Deviation from a scheduled DH will not generate a taxable ticket expense.

2) If your trip starts/ends in domicile and you use deviation bank (that's the deviation expense they're talking about) to get to/get home from said domicile on that segment, you have triggered a taxable event.


A recent FCIF made it a fireable offense to file it wrong.

BTW, I'm not too happy that I can be terminated for an error that takes nothing from the company when scheduling has carte blanche to cheat us out of as much as they can get away without penalty. Anyone that has dealt with scheduling knows what I'm talking about.

I don't have that kind of trouble with audit and hope a scheduler never gets hired to work over there.

I won't point out that the answer you seek is in your own question grasshopper. Use your bank to commute=taxable. Use your bank to DH (anywhere)=non-taxable.

Hi!

Interesting tax situation:
The airline I work for has pilot bases, and some of the expenses going to/from the bases is deemed taxable by our company.
However, almost 100% of our trips never end or start in base, and most do neither.

When I read the IRS info on a "base", it said that the base was where your start and end work. In our case, we start and end work in our base less than 10% of the time. I don't think, for tax purposes, that it can really be a base, and I don't think the expenses should be taxable.

Ideas, comments, suggestions???

Thanx a TON!

cliff
MIA

Can you give some examples? If the company is paying for travel to your base before a trip or away from base after a trip, that would be taxable. It's the same as the expense for a car service (or value of company car) used outside of work for commuting. It's viewed as compensation in-kind.