Smoking deal for ASA crews. FLICA is offering free per-diem calculation!

[COOPERVANE]

Is a portion of a Gym membership deductable? You know, to maintain my FAA 1st class physique

 

[atrdriver]

What about naps/standups.

THe IRS pubs are a little fuzzy on this. It says only for overnight trips or trips with a rest period. ALL my naps have a rest period.

You can clean up if all you do is naps. Lets say you have XNA, FAY, and MLU naps in a row. That is basically a 4 day trip as far as the calculation goes. Using $52 a day, with 75% for the first and last day, equals $182. Now figure that each was good for 11 hours of TAFB, or 33 hours total. That's $49.50. That's $132.50 that is deductable for 1 stretch of 3 naps.

 

[WestSide]

I'm not 100% positive about this, but I think that a legal rest period has to be given in order to deduct it. I assume that means the 8 hour minimum. If you have a nap with 8 or more hours on the ground I assume that could be considered a rest period.

 

[atrdriver]

I'm not 100% positive about this, but I think that a legal rest period has to be given in order to deduct it. I assume that means the 8 hour minimum. If you have a nap with 8 or more hours on the ground I assume that could be considered a rest period.

If you are away from base, on an assigned trip for the company, it can be assumed that the trip is a legal one, thus eligible for the normal deductions. The way that I figured it is more conservative than using each day as a day coming and a day going, which could also be argued as being correct.

 

[John Pennekamp]

The Flica thing increased my refund by almost $800.