IFTA Audit (Need some help)

Hello fellow Truckers,

I am being audited for IFTA for the year 2014. I am a carrier and only have leased long term owner operators that work for me with their own equipment obviously. The person auditing me is telling me that each and every leased owner operator has to registered under my IRP account because I do IFTA for those trucks even though I don't own them. This seems a little odd to me so I contacted a few friends that run their own authority as well and they all confirmed that this is not true. They can have their irp account and their own plates (like they do) and I can just do the IFTA for them. Can anyone confirm this on here as well?

 

Everything was filed accordingly and taxes paid. I just needed to confirm that my owner operators can have their own IRP account and plates and all they need from me is IFTA stickers. That's all I wanted to confirm here.

The auditor is telling me that they have to be on my IRP account as well as IFTA which I believe is wrong like everybody else said.

 

I am responsible for IFTA return, thats not in question. However, the auditor is telling me that I need to have these trucks registered under my IRP as well which is throwing me off quite a bit since they are just leased Owner Operators.

 

Yes I am responsible for safety. But they have their own IRP accounts and registration.