one year at least. Just to keep on annoying my wife! :-)

I keep them until the miles post. Used to toss them immediately until once the miles did not post. When talking to the airline, the rep told me to fax him a copy of the BP. I told him I did't have it any more. He asked (in a surprised and condescending tone), "Why not?!?!?". Since then, I keep them until the miles post.

And as far as bureaucratic bean counters go, I am an accountant. I find most of the comments here about accountants insulting, demeaning, and insensitive. They reveal a complete lack of understanding by most people of the profession. I also find them mostly on target! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif I like to think that while I thrive on paper trails, I try to keep at least one foot grounded in reality. It's hard riding that fence, but when one of those barbs hit a sensitive area, it's even harder to not pay attention!!!

Remember - debits towards the windows and credits towards the doors....

So... as an accountant do you think boarding passes are required for the IRS paper trail, or are the receipts sufficient? :-)

I've got every boarding pass I've ever had (somewhere). Most from airlines that aren't even around any longer.

Along the lines of pitflyer and some others, I'm going to wallpaper a room with 'em someday. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

What I don't like about many of the current boarding pass stubs, is that they usually don't have any indication of the year printed on them anywhere. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif

I even have many of the old Frequent Flyer "Flight Cards" from several airlines that you used to have to fill out with your name, FF account number, date, flight numbers, from/to airport codes...that you had to attach to every single flight segment coupon you used.


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Keep them until I do my expense reports. In some cases, this means that they are out of my posession 24 hours after the trip is over. Sometimes, its about 6 months - until my wife hounds me to do the d..n reports.
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I still use a variant of those... for Xiamen Airlines' MF Egret Mileage Plus (shades of United) and China Southern's Sky Pearl FF Clubs. They each mail a batch of about 20 FF-number barcoded stickers at a time, which you have to stick onto the ticket at check-in.

The way I see it, the receipts are the most proper support for any expense deduction. Boarding passes might could be used in the absence of receipts, but that might get challenged. What is to prevent a double deduction by an unscrupulous tax payer if they could use both receipts and boarding passes?

The caveat to all this is that I have never personally addressed this with the IRS. As we all know, only two-thirds of IRS can be found in REASONABLE!!!