Collect all your gallons purchased and miles driven between July 1 and September 30, 2011.  Then, use IFTA Plus to enter your miles and fuel and immediately have our IFTA calculator prepare your State fuel tax return.

Read more about our most asked questions, using our published fuel tax rates, the four required steps to prepare your IFTA fuel tax return, and if you need to calculate the IFTA taxes owed per truck, this is a must read.
Safe driving!

If you already have an account with IFTA Plus, sign in and start entering your miles and fuel.  If not, our registration process takes only a minute and we walk you through each step of how to file IFTA taxes.  You don’t have to pay for anything until you are ready to print out your state IFTA fuel tax return.

To complete your return, you will need to collect your miles driven and fuel purchased in each State between July 1 and September 30, 2011.

As always, feel free to Contact Us if you need further assistance.

Safe Driving…

If you already have an account with IFTA Plus, sign in and start entering your miles and fuel.  If not, our registration process takes only a minute and we walk you through each step of how to file IFTA taxes.  You don’t have to pay for anything until you are ready to print out your state IFTA fuel tax return.

To complete your return, you will need to collect your miles driven and fuel purchased in each State between April 1 and June 30, 2011.

For our thousands of return customers, you will notice several upgrades over last quarter.  The initial dashboard gives you quick access to all your past quarter miles, fuel and returns.  We have also upgraded our reporting engine to give you better insight into your data.  Have a look around and let us know what you think.  Suggestions are always welcome.

As always, feel free to Contact Us if you need further assistance.

Safe Driving…

Collect all your gallons purchased and miles driven between January 1 and March 31, 2011.  Then, use IFTA Plus to enter your information and immediately have our IFTA calculator prepare your State return.

Read more about our most asked questions, using our published fuel tax rates, the four required steps to prepare your IFTA fuel tax return, and if you need to calculate the IFTA taxes owed per truck, this is a must read.
Safe driving!

The trucking industry is a well tracked indicator of the state of the overall economy.  When the economy is good, manufacturing increases, purchasing increases, shipping increases and therefore the transportation industry improves.  There are several metrics tracked in the industry including the monthly tonnage.  Several blogs talk about the reality of a changing industry driven by a slow economy.  Other writers like to speculate on the future state of the economy.

Here at IFTA Plus, we put together a few simple charts that compare where miles are being driven and how companies are performing.

State mileage changes: This chart shows the difference in miles per state between Q1 2010 and Q4 2010.

You can see that states in the East increased miles driven and states in the West decreased in miles driven.

Company mileage changes.  This graph shows how companies performed quarter over quarter.

This graph shows in Q4 2010, only 46% of returning IFTA Plus companies increased their miles driven over the previous quarter.  In fact, to summarize this chart, here are the percentages of companies that increased their miles driven vs the previous quarter:

Q1 2008 – 59%
Q2 2008 – 60%
Q3 2008 – 47%
Q4 2008 – 42%
Q1 2009 – 45%
Q2 2009 – 62%
Q3 2009 – 52%
Q4 2009 – 46%
Q1 2010 – 49%
Q2 2010 – 63%
Q3 2010 – 48%
Q4 2010 – 46%

We’re not economists and we don’t give any indications that our data is a diverse and representative cross section of the trucking industry.  However, the number are interesting to look through.

If you already have an account with IFTA Plus, sign in and start entering your miles and fuel.  If not, our registration process takes only a minute and we walk you through each step in the filing process.  You don’t have to pay for anything until you are ready to print out your state IFTA fuel tax return.

To complete your return, you will need to collect your miles driven and fuel purchased in each State between January 1 and March 31.  If you need help with older returns, we can file any quarter since Q1 2010.

As always, feel free to Contact Us if you need further assistance.

Safe Driving…

Collect all your gallons purchased and miles driven between October 1 and December 31, 2010.  Then, use IFTA Plus to enter your information and immediately have our IFTA calculator prepare your State return.

Safe driving!

To complete your return, you will need to collect your miles driven and fuel purchased in each State between October 1 and December 31, 2011.

As always, feel free to Contact Us if you need further assistance or help remembering your password.

Safe Driving and happy new year!

This quarter saw some significant milestones for IFTA Plus:

More new company signups than any other quarter.
This quarter saw a 24% increase in new companies over last quarter.

Prepared 34% more returns this quarter versus last quarter.
This huge increase in number of returns prepared is not only because of an increased number of new companies, but also because an increased number of returning companies who used IFTA Plus last quarter and came back again this quarter.

IFTA Plus was available 100% of the time.
The past few quarters saw some downtime as the servers are very overloaded the last few days of the month.  Because of continued server improvements and an optimized codebase, the site didn’t experience any down time for the first quarter ever.

I want to personally thank everyone who prepared their IFTA fuel tax returns with IFTA Plus. I also want to thank those customers who called to ask questions, tell us about updated state forms (Georgia), point out a minor Oregon issue, ask about IFTA Connect, and to tell us how easy we made their life.

See you all again January 2011 and as always, drive safely

Stu Ludlow

Collect all your diesel gallons purchased and miles driven between July 1 and September 30, 2010.  Then, use IFTA Plus to enter your information and immediately have our IFTA calculator prepare your State return.

Safe driving!