It took me seven years, seven years of being a pain in the a**, to get my employer, the State of Hawaii, to offer the pre-tax payroll deduction for the bus pass even though they were already doing it for the parking passes. It was bizarre that they wouldn't do it because by taking the money out of pre-tax income they were saving on the payroll taxes (this was true even though they were losing income tax because the payroll taxes were larger). I was finally successful when I cornered the Governor at a $500 a seat black tie fund raiser and convinced her to kick some bureaucrat a**. Unfortunately the tax argument doesn't apply to bicycle commuting since, to quote the IRS, "Generally, qualified transportation fringe benefits are excluded from an employee's wages even if you provide them under a compensation reduction agreement. However, qualified bicycle commuting reimbursements do not qualify for this exclusion if made under a compensation reduction agreement." In other words, your employer can't say, OK, I'll give you $20 a month for bicycle commuting expenses if you agree to having your salary reduced by $20 a month and not include the $20 in taxable income, even though they can say, I'll pay for your $20 bus pass if you agree to a $20 reduction in pay and the $20 won't be taxable to you. So unless your employer is willing to eat the $20 (of course they still get a tax deduction for the $20) this program doesn't work. Now, employers like mine that don't provide the benefit without a compensation reduction agreement have an argument for not subsidizing bike commuting expenses since it will actually cost them money, but employers who are paying for the parking or bus passes without a compensation reduction agreement really have no justification for not taking advantage of the bicycle tax program other than prejudice against bicycle commuters. It is too bad Congress created that law with the exclusion, otherwise employers could save money (via the payroll taxes) by having their employees commute by bicycle.