On every plan
The complete quarterly fuel-tax workspace is on every plan, Solo included. Fuel tax is never held back to push an upgrade.
Every plan, including Solo
IFTA — International Fuel Tax Agreement
IFTA — the International Fuel Tax Agreement — is an agreement among the 48 contiguous US states and the 10 Canadian provinces that lets a carrier file one quarterly fuel-tax return with its base jurisdiction, covering the distance it ran and the fuel it bought in every member jurisdiction.
Also called: fuel tax, quarterly fuel tax, IFTA return
- Who deals with it
- Whoever does the books, with dispatch supplying the miles and drivers supplying the fuel receipts.
- When it shows up
- Quarterly, due on the last day of the month after the quarter closes.
- What usually goes wrong
- Miles nobody can defend, fuel receipts that never reached the office, or tax worked in the wrong unit for a province.
IFTA, explained
You pay fuel tax where you burn the fuel, not where you buy it. So each quarter you report how far you ran in each jurisdiction and how much fuel you bought in each. The return works out what is owed to some jurisdictions and credited by others, and your base jurisdiction settles it with the rest.
It applies to qualified motor vehicles: two axles and a gross or registered weight over 26,000 lb (11,797 kg), three or more axles at any weight, or a combination over 26,000 lb. Returns are due on the last day of the month after each quarter closes — in January, April, July and October.
The arithmetic is easy to get quietly wrong. US states publish rates per US gallon and provinces publish them per litre, so a calculation that assumes gallons understates provincial tax. And the miles have to be defensible: an auditor who does not trust how they were measured can reject the basis of the whole return.
How Lanexa handles it
This lives mainly in Compliance, where 342 catalogued capabilities are live. Each item says which plan it is on.
Mileage sources, side by side
Miles by jurisdiction come from your routes or manual entry; PC*MILER on your own key and ELD distance add sources, compared in one table with a variance column. You choose which one the return uses.
Routes and manual on every plan · PC*MILER from Start · ELD on Fleet
Checks before you file
Gap checks flag fuel bought where no miles were recorded, miles with no fuel receipts and fleet mileage per gallon out of range. Provincial rates are worked per litre and US rates per gallon.
Every plan
The Audit-Armor report
Export the quarterly return, a per-account filing pack and the Audit-Armor report: miles by every source, the variance, and a plain-language note on how the numbers were produced.
Every plan
Questions about IFTA — International Fuel Tax Agreement
What is IFTA?
IFTA — the International Fuel Tax Agreement — is an agreement among the 48 contiguous US states and the 10 Canadian provinces that lets a carrier file one quarterly fuel-tax return with its base jurisdiction, covering the distance it ran and the fuel it bought in every member jurisdiction.
Who has to file IFTA?
A carrier whose qualified motor vehicles run in more than one member jurisdiction, under an IFTA licence from its base jurisdiction.
The alternative is buying a fuel trip permit for each jurisdiction entered.
When are IFTA returns due?
On the last day of the month after each quarter: 30 April, 31 July, 31 October and 31 January.
When that falls on a weekend or holiday, the next business day.
Is IFTA included on Lanexa's cheapest plan?
Yes. The complete quarterly fuel-tax workspace, including the Audit-Armor report, is on every plan, including Solo.