Every year, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issues optional standard mileage rates for business travel. If your organization follows the mileage rates issued by the IRS, you may consider updating the mileage rates in Sage Expense Management as per the latest IRS rates so that your employees are duly reimbursed.
Here's one such announcement for the year 2026.
Please follow the steps mentioned here to update the mileage rates.
FAQs:
Does Sage Expense Management automatically update the mileage rate as per IRS guidelines?
No. Sage Expense Management doesn't update the mileage rates automatically. However, if you want us to update the mileage rates on your behalf, please let us know at [email protected]. We would be happy to help.
My employees have some mileage expenses from 2025. How can we handle them?
If your employees have expenses from older rates, don't worry. We have a workaround for you. Please follow the steps mentioned below.
Create a new mileage rate, let's say
IRS Rate 2025with the old mileage rate value.Ask your employees to select
IRS Rate 2025the mileage rates while creating the old mileage expenses from 2025.Use the new mileage rate, let’s say
IRS Rate 2026, for the mileages from Jan 1st 2026.Once all those 2025 mileage expenses are created, please disable that
IRS Rate 2025so that onlyIRS Rate 2026be used.
Feel free to contact our support team at [email protected] for any further information.