--Employers reimburse

employees for expenses they incure from using their own automobiles. The given rate is usually set by the Federal Government to set the amount a company may claim as a business expense.

The goal is to encourage employees to use their own automobiles to do company business.
.

The 2012 Internal
Revenue Service rate is
more than 55 Cents per mile.

That is what it actually costs
a person to drive their car
each mile when all costs
are included.
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