Travel rates

For the independent developers here, I was looking for some input on your policy on travel rates. This question does not really apply to air/hotel/car rental types of tele-commuting as you would have that pre-defined in your contract. If you need to travel 2.5 hours for a client, spend 3 hours on site, 2.5 hours back, how do you bill that. Do you charge your normal programming rate for the entire time, part of the time, or 5 hours at a travel rate and 3 at a programming rate? My thoughts are that I need a lower travel rate, or maybe charge by the mile. Dan ------------------------------------------ Dan O'Keefe TriPoint Technologies dan@tripointtek.com 954.753.9148 office 954.501.3115 cell ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm

For the independent developers here, I was looking for some input on your policy on travel rates. This question does not really apply to air/hotel/car rental types of tele-commuting as you would have that pre-defined in your contract. If you need to travel 2.5 hours for a client, spend 3 hours on site, 2.5 hours back, how do you bill that. Do you charge your normal programming rate for the entire time, part of the time, or 5 hours at a travel rate and 3 at a programming rate? My thoughts are that I need a lower travel rate, or maybe charge by the mile. Dan ------------------------------------------ Dan O'Keefe TriPoint Technologies dan@tripointtek.com 954.753.9148 office 954.501.3115 cell ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting.

  Travel Time is not a controlled cost.   I ran into lot of trouble charging (half my rate) for travel time.   One day I got stuck in traffic and it took 2 hours to get home instead of 1, for example.   Charge your normal rate for the 3 hours on-site and build your travel costs into it.   Keep records of your mileage for tax purposes. At 06:12 AM 5/9/2002 -0400, you wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more ----- ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm

From what I understand, if you're doing work for the Feds under contract you get to charge 31 cents per mile for travel. larry -- Larry C. Lyons ColdFusion/Web Developer Certified Advanced ColdFusion 5 Developer EBStor.com 8870 Rixlew Lane, Suite 204 Manassas, Virginia 20109-3795 tel:   (703) 393-7930 fax:   (703) 393-2659 Web:   http://www.ebstor.com        http://www.pacel.com email: llyons@ebstor.com Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done. -- ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more ----- ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com

mileage, PLUS Per Diem, Plus your hourly rate. >From what I understand, if you're doing work for the Feds under contract you get to charge 31 cents per mile for travel. larry -- Larry C. Lyons ColdFusion/Web Developer Certified Advanced ColdFusion 5 Developer EBStor.com 8870 Rixlew Lane, Suite 204 Manassas, Virginia 20109-3795 tel:   (703) 393-7930 fax:   (703) 393-2659 Web:   http://www.ebstor.com        http://www.pacel.com email: llyons@ebstor.com Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done. -- ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more ----- ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm

My CPA tells me you can charge mileage at that rate, but only for actual travel on the clock i.e. you can't charge your mileage for commuting (unless you have a home office you often work from, but even that is apparantly a big "audit me" sign). If you're driving from one client site to another, or going to see your accountant, banker etc. then you can charge the miles. -Stacy --- doug <doug@dwhite.ws> wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more ----- ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm

Well the way I look at it is...How much is your time worth? I use a flat rate service call fee or whatever you want to call it. Sometimes I may lose a couple of bucks and sometimes I may gain a few, but in the long run it all evens out to where I do not lose $$ Douglas Brown Email: dbrown@socal.rr.com ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more ----- ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm

I will accept that as long as your CPA does not work for Andersen consulting.  I have a home office and was audited 5 years ago, and the result was a larger refund, as I had been overly conservative with deductions. They have not audited since. I use the service call method as well, plus mileage if the call does not involve an overnight stay, or air travel. for the longer assignments, I use a Per Diem rate, and all travel time is on the clock.  Time not traveling and not on the job is not billed to the client. My CPA tells me you can charge mileage at that rate, but only for actual travel on the clock i.e. you can't charge your mileage for commuting (unless you have a home office you often work from, but even that is apparantly a big "audit me" sign). If you're driving from one client site to another, or going to see your accountant, banker etc. then you can charge the miles. -Stacy --- doug <doug@dwhite.ws> wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more ----- ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm