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It seems to me, anecdotally of course, that most employees will have their accommodation paid for from (and organised from) their company before or after they travel.
They will then of course incur the normal range of expenses in a stay wherever they are. Let's assume one week away in same-home-country.
So;
Week -1. Hotel booked and perhaps paid for by company secretary (as an example)
Week 0. Worker-Bee1 arrives stays and keeps all receipts for all expenses.
Also Week 0. Worker-Bee2 arrives stays and relies on Revenue Travel & Subsistence per-diem rates.
Week+1Worker-Bees 1&2 try to claim expenses individually, without falling foul of legislation and BIK.
The rules state it is either Per-Diem or Invoiced/Receipted expenditure of employee incurred expenditure, i.e. you can't mix.*. But if the hotel is paid for from Company funds (ie is a real cost, with a real receipt/invoice but for an expense availed of throughout the week Days 1-5 - - then the Per-Diem option is therefore excluded !?)
It seems to me that where there is any central management system of arranging stays anywhere that Employers should solely rely on invoices and not per-diem rates !?!?!!?!?
The travel to/from interim place of work can be paid by vouchers/receipted expenses but the stay while there can be per-diem (but this per-diem rate includes daily taxis to/from new work place); am I correct in this?
*A revenue example does allow employer to pay some actual expenses for the employee and employee to recoup their own receipted expenditure (ie the employee themselves doesn't have to pay directly all receipted/invoiced expenses)
They will then of course incur the normal range of expenses in a stay wherever they are. Let's assume one week away in same-home-country.
So;
Week -1. Hotel booked and perhaps paid for by company secretary (as an example)
Week 0. Worker-Bee1 arrives stays and keeps all receipts for all expenses.
Also Week 0. Worker-Bee2 arrives stays and relies on Revenue Travel & Subsistence per-diem rates.
Week+1Worker-Bees 1&2 try to claim expenses individually, without falling foul of legislation and BIK.
The rules state it is either Per-Diem or Invoiced/Receipted expenditure of employee incurred expenditure, i.e. you can't mix.*. But if the hotel is paid for from Company funds (ie is a real cost, with a real receipt/invoice but for an expense availed of throughout the week Days 1-5 - - then the Per-Diem option is therefore excluded !?)
It seems to me that where there is any central management system of arranging stays anywhere that Employers should solely rely on invoices and not per-diem rates !?!?!!?!?
The travel to/from interim place of work can be paid by vouchers/receipted expenses but the stay while there can be per-diem (but this per-diem rate includes daily taxis to/from new work place); am I correct in this?
*A revenue example does allow employer to pay some actual expenses for the employee and employee to recoup their own receipted expenditure (ie the employee themselves doesn't have to pay directly all receipted/invoiced expenses)
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