Course Descriptions and Prices

Course Topics: 

Applicable Authorities

Geographic Terminology 

Travel Authorization Requirements

Transportation (Air and Train)

Lodging

Meals and Incidentals

Car Rental

Gov't Vehicle and POV

Ground Travel Options

SmartPay Travel Charge Card

Emergency Travel

Conferences

Miscellaneous Expenses

Fly America Act

Emergency and Personal Travel

OCONUS

This course is for individuals who work in travel departments or who write travel policy for their agency. This course provides the knowledge and understanding you need to research complex travel issues, make travel recommendations, clarification of topics discussed in the TDY course, a discussion of policy issues, and other duties relative to your agency’s travel program and mission.

Case studies are used to better understand where travel regulations originated and why they were established.

This course presents a consolidation of the travel regulations, rules, and policies presented in the Two Day TDY Travel course. The content from the two day course is consolidated into one day.

The course is ideal for students who cannot attend a two day course or for students that only require an overview of the most common regulations applicable to TDY travel.

Course Topics:

• Understand Approving Officials’ rights and responsibilities,

• Know how to properly authorize and approve travel,

• Improve understanding of the travel regulations to ensure travelers comply with mandatory travel rules, regulations, and programs,

• Understand how to determine the most cost-advantageous transportation mode for a trip,

• Recognize unauthorized travel expenses and take appropriate action,

• Determine valid travel expenses that may be included on the voucher.

This course covers a number of topics important for international travelers. Topics include: (1) making your reservations, (2) considerations for lodging, car rental, misc expenses, cash, payments, cellphones and laptops, (3) safety, (4) class of service, (5) international date line, (6) Fly America Act, and (7) case studies.

Learn how to travel using the FTR as this course takes you through three travel scenarios.

Learn the FTR in-depth as this course takes you through each part of the FTR.

Learn the rights and responsibilities of approving officials, and clarification of the FTR for many of the items that will arise with travel authorizations and expense vouchers.

Learn the rules and regulations regarding the Fly America Act and use of Open Skies Agreements.

Attending a Conference educates students on aligning their agency’s core mission with future conferences or meetings if travel is essential. It teaches the Federal Travel Regulation (FTR) policies that are most important to travelers attending or participating in conferences or workshops. The course introduces the student to ethics guidelines often experienced at conferences with respect to accepting merchandise from vendors.

Course Topics: 

Applicable Authorities

Geographic Terminology

Types of Relocation

Overseas Tour Renewal

Temporary Quarters Subsistence Expense Allowances

Transportation and Temporary Storage of Household Goods

Home Sale Programs

Property Management Services 

This course provides a comprehensive discussion of the taxation of relocation allowances and the payment of the RIT Allowance.

Course Topics: 

Applicable Authorities

Taxation of Relocation Allowances

     Income Taxation vs. Employment Taxation

     Withholding Responsibilities

     Reporting Requirements

Payment of the RIT Allowances

     Year 1 vs. Year 2; Withholding Tax Allowance

     RIT Allowance Year 2 Adjustment

     Negative RIT Allowance Payments

Procedural Requirements for the RIT Allowances  

This course provides a comprehensive discussion of the taxation of relocation allowances for the relocating person.

Audience: Federal associates who are relocating and wish to better understand the tax implications.

Course Topics: 

• What expenses are permissible
• Which expenses are not allowed
• If you are paid by your employer for expenses (allowable and not allowable), how do they affect you
• How are allowable expenses not reimbursed treated

This course provides a comprehensive discussion of procedural requirements and relocation allowances payable to employees of DoD who relocate overseas at government expense.

Audience: Federal associates who are relocating and wish to better understand the allowances provided for their relocation.

Course Topics: 

Types of Relocations

Relocation of Family

En Route Travel Expenses

Temporary Quarter Subsistence Expenses 

Transportation and Storage of Household Goods

Transportation of a POV

Transfer Allowance

This course provides a comprehensive discussion of the STATE taxation of relocation allowances for the relocating person.

Course Topics: 

By the end of the class, students will achieve the following learning objectives:

• Discuss the structural differences between state and federal returns commonly prepared in the US.

• Examine the difference between returns prepared using a base of Federal AGI (Adjusted Gross Income) and those using a Gross Income method

• Determine a state adjusted gross income usi