[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 127 (Tuesday, July 2, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Page 31595]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-14063]


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GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

[Notice-MA-2019-06; Docket No. 2019-0002, Sequence No. 13]


Federal Travel Regulation (FTR); Relocation Allowances--
Relocation Income Tax Allowance (RITA) Tables

AGENCY: Office of Government-wide Policy (OGP), General Services 
Administration (GSA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The purpose of this notice is to inform agencies that FTR 
Bulletin 19-05 pertaining to Relocation Allowances--Relocation Income 
Tax Allowance (RITA) Tables for employees who relocated prior to 2015 
with reimbursements received in 2018 and new procedures for employees 
who relocated prior to 2015 with reimbursements received in 2019 or 
later is now available online at www.gsa.gov/ftrbulletin.

DATES: Applicable: This notice is applicable beginning July 2, 2019.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Rick Miller, Office of Asset and 
Transportation Management (MA), at 202-501-3822 or via email at 
[email protected]. Please cite FTR Bulletin 19-05.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    FTR Bulletin 19-05: Relocation Allowances--Relocation Income Tax 
Allowance (RITA) Tables for employees who relocated prior to 2015 with 
reimbursements received in 2018 and new procedures for employees who 
relocated prior to 2015 with reimbursements received in 2019 or later 
is now available and (1) provides the tables necessary to calculate the 
amount of a transferee's increased tax burden for employees who 
relocated before January 1, 2015 and received reimbursements during 
calendar year 2018; (2) informs agencies that for employees who 
relocated before January 1, 2015, and receive(d) reimbursements in 
calendar year 2019 or later, GSA has determined that agencies will 
follow the same procedures for those that relocated after January 1, 
2015 in accordance with the current issuance of FTR Part 302-17; and 
(3) notifies agencies that GSA will no longer issue annual FTR 
Bulletins for RITA tax tables because all relocations with 
reimbursements received in 2019 or later will use tables published by 
the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), state/district, Puerto Rico, 
and local tax authorities to compute combined marginal tax rates.
    FTR Bulletin 19-05 and all other FTR Bulletins can be found at 
www.gsa.gov/ftrbulletin.

Jessica Salmoiraghi,
Associate Administrator, Office of Government-wide Policy.
[FR Doc. 2019-14063 Filed 7-1-19; 8:45 am]
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