Fuel Tax Setup for Company

Company level listing

 Next to the company name, click the 'box with pencil' icon to Edit Rules.

Scrolling down, there are two areas to focus on related to Fuel Tax: States Unit Reports Mileage To: and Fuel Tax.

If any vehicles in the fleet travel through Kentucky, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, or Connecticut then the respective states should be selected under the dropdown in States Unit Reports Mileage To:. This is due to the requirement to submit a mileage form separate from IFTA to those states.

If all vehicles of the appropriate vehicle types should be included in IFTA reporting, the Is IFTA Reportable toggle should be switched on (showing dark blue). Additionally, the vehicles that are IFTA reportable should be included in Fleet MPG. Therefore, either both boxes should be checked, or neither.

Trip Entry options

When in Settings, click on the Vehicles tab. Then click Trip Entry Options in the Fuel Tax Info box.

Trip Entry Options allows the user to change certain input settings when adding a trip in Encompass.

• Start/End Odometer - Enables/Disables fields to enter the start and end odometer readings for the entire trip.
• Trip Line Odometers - Enables/Disables fields to enter the odometer reading when they left the jurisdiction indicated on that trip line.
• Display Previous Date & Odometer - Enables/Disables the date and end odometer from the previous trip automatically filling in the date and start odometer of the current trip.
• Trip Line Dates - Must be set to Yes if manually entering in the trips or importing fuel from a fuel card.
• Toll Distance - Enables/Disables the field to enter Toll Miles for a jurisdiction on a trip line.
• Unladen Distance - This creates a checkbox on a trip line that, if it is checked, indicates that the mileage on that trip line was completed while unladen.
• Axle/Weight On Mileage Listing - Enables/Disables a field to enter number of axles and weight of the vehicle for an entered mileage listing.
• Display Additional Fuel Field - By default, each trip line has two fields for fuel to be entered. Having this set to Yes allows for three fields for fuel.
• If the user wants to add details for fuel purchases, mileage listings, or trip permits, the appropriate option at the bottom for the Listings should be Always.

If Drivers are going to be entering details of the fuel receipts, Fuel under Listings should be set to Always or Control.  If Encompass Users are manually entering details of the fuel receipts, this setting should be Always.

Data Verification Settings

Data Verification Settings are in place to help ensure the data that is entered is valid.

• Jurisdiction to Jurisdiction Sequence - Enables/Disables the enforcement of the jurisdictions entered on a fuel tax trip be in geographical order - i.e. Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri (not Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri).
• Minimum Distance Between Jurisdiction - Enables/Disables a minimum mileage that can occur between two jurisdictions.  These minimum mileage settings can be edited in Jurisdiction Minimum Mileage settings found in the next section. 
• Begin/End Trip Dates - Enables/Disables start and end dates automatically populating based on the trips that have already been entered immediately before or after. As a validation, this checks that trips are entered with sequential dates.
• Begin/End Trip Odometers - Enables/Disables the enforcement that the end odometer of a trip must be the start odometer of the next trip.
• Minimum/Maximum MPG (or KPL) - Enables/Disables an alert from Encompass if the miles per gallon falls outside of the minimum/maximum MPG parameters provided by the Unit Type.
• Fuel Entered without Distance in Jurisdiction - Enables/Disables the ability to have a trip line with no odometer reading or miles and only fuel.

Jurisdiction Minimum Mileage

Jurisdiction Minimum Mileage determines what the minimum distance can be between jurisdictions. The enablement/disablement of this setting is in the Data Verification Settings > Minimum Distance Between Jurisdictions (see prior section).

Click Edit from the main pop-out screen to edit these minimum mileages as a whole from the Jurisdiction currently selected in the From section. Click Save when finished.

To edit individual Jurisdiction From/To minimum mileages, select a jurisdiction from the From and To dropdowns. Then, click Edit. Click Save when finished.

Jurisdiction Control Settings

Jurisdiction Control Settings show what the tax rates are for a given jurisdiction and work month. Additionally, this area is where Bulk Fuel can be enabled.

To enable Bulk Fuel:

• Select the appropriate jurisdiction from the drop down at the top, then select Edit next to the Listings & Bulk Fuel Tax Status heading.
• Check the box under Bulk next to the appropriate fuel type and select the Tax Status of the gallons/liters being reported from the drop down.
• Click Save.