The DOT Doctor can calculate and file your IFTA fuel taxes. IFTA filing service is available in several options. 

IFTA Filing Plans

Jr. Plan	Basic Filing Service	Deluxe Plan	Presidential Plan
Enter state miles from template on IFTA form	Total state miles and enter on IFTA form from worksheet	Calculate, total and enter state miles on IFTA form from worksheet	Calculate, total and enter state miles on IFTA form from trip envelope
Enter fuel gallons purchased by state from template on IFTA form	Total fuel gallons purchased by state on IFTA form from worksheet	Calculate, total and enter fuel gallons purchased by state on IFTA form from worksheet	Calculate, total and enter fuel gallons purchased by state on IFTA form from trip envelope
Calculate tax or refund due	Calculate tax or refund due	Calculate tax or refund due	Calculate tax or refund due
Return for filing	Choice of: File IFTA return or Return for filing	efile, where available or mail File IFTA Return or return for filing	efile, where available or mail File IFTA Return or return for filing
		Fuel recommendation report on quarterly basis	Fuel monitoring report on monthly basis with state recommendations
			Log auditing w/ safety review letter(s) and services outlined under Log Auditing Presidential Plan
$10 / truck / month	$20 / truck / month	$30 / truck / month	$45 / truck / month

Subscribe enters you into equal monthly payments for Service level selected.  For discount, annual amount must be paid in one payment.  Default is 13 month payment plan which can be cancelled at anytime after the 3 month initial commitment is fulfilled.

* all plans available on an annual plan with 2 months free

** OOIDA members receive Minimum 5% discount

*** additional services available at discount rate with subscription packages

**** 3 month minimum service agreement

***** discount available on Deluxe and Presidential Plans for fleets >50 trucks with same DOT number

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IFTA details grace period

By CCJ Staff

The repository of the International Fuel Tax Agreement has issued its annual memo explaining the IFTA grace period for the display of the coming year’s IFTA licenses and decals.

Although carriers that operate under IFTA are expected to file their renewal applications with their base state or province before the end of the calendar year, they have until the end of February to actually display the 2009 IFTA license and decals on all their IFTA vehicles.

During January and February, an IFTA vehicle will be considered legal if it displays 2009 IFTA credentials, an IFTA trip permit or the 2008 IFTA license and decals.

For questions, contact the IFTA office at  480-839-4382.

Paperless driver trip reporting designed to simplify IFTA management

By CCJ Staff

Trucktax describes its system as an online trip report form that looks and functions like a paper form but is even easier to use. The online trip report system is designed to relieve drivers of the time and effort required to prepare paper trip reports for their carrier company for use in driver pay settlement and state/province IFTA fuel tax compliance reporting.

"Drivers spend a lot of time during and after each trip maintaining and preparing paper trip reports," says Ron Johnson, president and chief executive officer of Markham, Ontario-based Trucktax Inc. This process requires them to keep track of odometer readings and/or miles/kilometers at state/province border crossings for use in preparing the paper trip reports, Johnson says.

As a result, these paper trip reports submitted to carrier managers and/or fuel tax reporting service providers sometimes are filled with errors that company staff must find and correct prior to processing the information to create the required IFTA and/or fuel tax reports needed for accurate states/province tax compliance filings.

With the Trucktax paperless online driver trip reports system, companies in the trucking industry will realize significant time and cost savings, as well as increased information accuracy, convenience and productivity, Johnson says. "Our clients are realizing significant savings of time and money using this online system. They are able to eliminate the cost of printing, storing and distributing paper trip forms to be completed by their drivers."

They eliminate the time and cost of collecting paper trip reports from drivers, which sometimes will be unreadable; instead, drivers simply complete the online trip report form, hit the submit button, and the carrier company and/or IFTA service provider receives this information instantly as an e-mail that looks like a paper trip report, Trucktax says.

Further benefit to the industry, according to the company, is the significant time and cost savings realized from eliminating the need to file these paper trip report forms after processing, and having to store them for audit purposes in compliance with state and province law. Trucktax says companies using its paperless trip reporting system will be able to store these trip report forms without having to invest in storage boxes and warehouse space; this information now will reside on a computer hard drive in their office, making it easy to retrieve with a simple click of the mouse. Trucktax says it also maintains a backup copy of each trip report, at no cost to clients, for as long as they are clients of the service.

Trucktax says with its paperless driver trip reporting system, there is no software to buy, no licensing fee, no renewals, no contracts and no new computer procedure for drivers to learn. For more information, go to www.trucktax.ca/report/Report.aspx.

*Per month when contract for service is signed during the promotion period or on a fleet of over 100 units. Must qualify for Jr. plan.

This service available as part of a package, subscription service or ala carte with 3 month minimium.