Liftr

Here is how I understand it.
VIPS has a PerDiem Recap page for each month. There is a column labelled "Excludable Allowance" that is the Govt rate. Then there is a column labelled "Actual Paid" or something like that. Add up those 2 columns for the whole year and subtract the difference. My Excludable allowance was $7000 and the actual paid was $3500.

Now, here is where the experts chime in.

Strut

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MD11Fr8Dog

Actually, it isn't THAT simple. Some places you are paid MORE than the excludable amount and that washes if you just add the columns and subtract. I go to each layover and on each layover that I was NOT paid at least the excludable amount, I subtract out the difference. Where I was paid MORE than the excludable amount, I skip those. Total it all up.

FlybyKnite

SOLD! They found an extra $700 of MI&E that my own crude method of perdiem cipherin' missed. And the $50 fee is deductible as a business tax preparation expense. And writing the check was far easier than downloading and massaging all the govt perdiem tables and pay summaries.

Jetjok

Mark,

Thanks so much for thinking about me, it does my heart good to know that someone, whom I don't know very well and care for even less, would actually be wasting his time, while out with his wife, at a cemetery, no less, thinking about little old me. Must have been an interesting conversation. I'm sure your wife was amazed at your thought processes.

However, I'm really not interested in becoming a guard, or for that matter, anything else that you might suggest. We have different work ethics, you and I, and I know that you just can't understand my point of view.

As for "having a gun", no thanks. I don't need one now, nor have I ever needed one in the past, except of course when I was on active duty in Viet Nam. As for the "spiffy uniforms", again, no thanks. I'm quite secure with my identity and sense of self and don't require any of your suggested articles. However, it sounds like you place an emphasis on these things. I'd bet you also have a very large watch.

Liftr

I told you it wouldn't take long for the experts to chime in.

Not withstanding a couple of off topic posts.