Typically, company requirements for mileage reimbursement are set based on the annual IRS standard rate for business travel. For example, in 2013, a business could pay up to 56.5 cents per mile and write it off as a business expense. This is much simpler than keeping detailed records of actual operating expenses.
Boris Yeltsin came to power with a wave of high expectations. On June 12, 1991 he was elected president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic with 57% of the vote, becoming the first popularly elected president. But Yeltsin never recovered his popularity after a series of economic and political crises in Russia in the 1990s.
In August 1999, Vladimir V. Putin, head of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), successor to the KGB, was appointed Prime Minister. On December 31st of that year, Boris Yeltsin announced that Putin would succeed him as President of the Russian Federation. HOW PUTIN CAME TO POWER traces the stunningly rapid ascension of this political unknown to leadership of the Kremlin. The film documents the power struggle between the country's ruling oligarchs and a behind-the-scenes political deal that elevated Putin to power.