IFTA - The company won't give me a copy of last year's ifta (we are not with them any

The company should not have a problem giving you a copy of all miles that your husband drove. They would not necessarily need to give you a copy of the actual IFTA return. If you use the miles from their IFTA account, it would not necessarily be accurate for your own miles. If you get your own IRP, you should only report those miles that your drove rather than miles for the entire fleet. They may just need more time to give the numbers. If they cannot or won't give you the miles and you don't want to put the miles together yourself, you could always try to use estimated again. Most states don't want you to do estimated after the first year other than those states in which you had no miles.

 

For the IRP you only need the total miles by state. They require 4 quarters. Depending on when your base plate expires will determine the quarters needed. Don't worry about the gallons. You don't need them to apply for your IRP. If you want to keep states in which you don't have miles, you will still need to estimate those state miles and they do charge extra when you don't have any miles in their state. I dropped a number of states from my IRP this year for the first time. I have not traveled in some states for the last several years so there is really no reason to pay them, especially at a higher rate, unless I plan on going through those states. If you have the state miles it should not take long to put them into a spreadsheet.

 

they aint gonna do an irs type audit and check, just use your old log books and figure the miles as best you can, you should have the old log books for per diem deduction on your taxes. a pain in the rear but better than waiting on someone else

 

Logs will help, but won't have your state miles. If you kept a copy of your trip sheets, as you should, then it will only be a matter of going through them and doing the math. I would suggest going forward that you keep your own records for future years.

 

Did the company not send you some kind of statement each month showing your IFTA charges? If not, it will be a lot of work, but you can take your settlement sheets and figure the miles for each state from the trip settlement. I doubt theres anything you can do to force them to give it to you other than keep trying?

 

Only other thing, you might contact the department of revenue in your state, find the department that handles IFTA taxes and get the info from them?

 

the logs will be necessary to remember what you did each day, so you can then figure the miles using a map on the internet or by using streets and trips.

and all logs are not created equal. my logs have the state miles for each day filled in at the bottom. and your logs have the total mileage for the day, helps to do a guesstimate for the ifta form.

 

That is a nice feature having the state miles on the logs. I don't recall having seen that on logs before.