To: Parish and school business managers and Chancery employees
From: Holly Orsagh, director of financial services, RCAA Administrative Services, Inc.
Standard mileage rate
- The 2026 business standard mileage rate is 72.5 cents per mile for all qualifying business miles driven in a personal vehicle.
- This rate applies to business travel for parish, school and other archdiocesan-related entities.
Reimbursement of employees
- Please use the 72.5 cents per mile rate to reimburse employees who use their personal vehicles for church, school or other archdiocesan entity related business beginning with mileage incurred on or after January 1, 2026.
- Reimbursement should be based on properly documented business mileage in accordance with the archdiocesan related travel policies and IRS requirements.
Priests using mileage method
- This same 72.5 cents per mile rate will be used to compensate archdiocesan priests who have elected the actual mileage method for automobile reimbursement.
- Priests using this method should maintain contemporaneous mileage logs that clearly distinguish business and personal, consistent with IRS requirements.
