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Duty Travel Rates - UNW/Excluded/Senior Management


Duty Travel Rates - An employee who is authorized to travel on Government business will be reimbursed for reasonable expenses incurred.

The Government of the Northwest Territories adjusts these rates as the Federal rates are changed.

Federal kilometric rates are reviewed four times a year: January 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1.

NWTTA Members - click here for your rates.

DUTY TRAVEL IN CANADA

MEALS & ACCOMMODATION (taxes included)

Expense Description Claim Allowance
Effective
April 1, 2008
Claim Allowance
Effective
Oct 1, 2008
Non-Commercial Accommodation
Where employees make private arrangements for overnight accommodation.

$50.00 per night

$50.00 per night
Meals breakfast
$16.10
$16.25
lunch
$16.65
$17.30
dinner
$52.25
$51.65
Meals Total Meal allowance total
$85.00

$85.20
Incidentals Incidental allowance
$17.30

$17.30
Daily Total Meals and incidentals total

$102.30

$102.50

KILOMETRIC RATES (taxes included)
Note: Claims for ground transportation costing less than $10.00 per trip do not require a receipt.

Expense Description
Claim Allowance
Effective
July 1, 2008

Claim Allowance
as of Oct 1, 2008

Private Car
Kilometric Rates
Where the use of a privately owned car is authorized for the Employer’s rather than the individual’s convenience.
$0.61 / km
within NWT

$0.515 / km
outside NWT
$0.64 / km
within NWT

$0.53 / km
outside NWT
Where the use of a privately owned car is authorized for the individual’s rather than the Employer’s convenience.
$0.280 / km
$0.280 / km

 

Duty Travel in the United States:
Rates in the United States are the same as in Canada, but paid in US funds.  The Northwest Territories private car kilometre rates, in US funds, apply to travel in Alaska.

More Information:
For more information, or for past Duty Travel Rate claim allowances, see Treasury Board of Canada
Appendix ‘B' (kilometric rates) or Appendix ‘C’ (Meals and Incidental Rates).