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Travel and Subsistence Rates Query

  • 29-05-2019 11:01AM
    #1
    insert-gear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 686 ✭✭✭


    Hi guys,

    I'm a bit confused on travel and subsistence rates for overnight stays. Do they only apply if the employee paid a specific cost e.g paid for their own hotel?

    Basically the company I work for gives us an extra bit of money when they ask us to travel to work and stay overnight in a hotel for an event. It's usually over the other side of the country. I'm just wondering is that taxable income?

    They pay for food, train and the hotel so because I don't incur anything I'm guessing the Civil Service rates don't apply?

    https://www.revenue.ie/en/employing-people/employee-expenses/travel-and-subsistence/civil-service-rates.aspx

    Thanks!


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  • #2
    relax carry on
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,153 ✭✭✭relax carry on


    insert-gear wrote: »
    Hi guys,

    I'm a bit confused on travel and subsistence rates for overnight stays. Do they only apply if the employee paid a specific cost e.g paid for their own hotel?

    Basically the company I work for gives us an extra bit of money when they ask us to travel to work and stay overnight in a hotel for an event. It's usually over the other side of the country. I'm just wondering is that taxable income?

    They pay for food, train and the hotel so because I don't incur anything I'm guessing the Civil Service rates don't apply?

    https://www.revenue.ie/en/employing-people/employee-expenses/travel-and-subsistence/civil-service-rates.aspx

    Thanks!

    If you didn't incur the expense then you can't claim/be paid anything additional tax free at all. If the company is paying you additional money for this work, then this should be taxed as normal by the company.


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 24,713 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    How is it paid, daily rate or vouched expenses? I know in my previous job we were paid a daily rate based on the country/city we traveled to regardless of how much you spent so if you didn’t go mad eating in expensive restaurants for lunch and dinner you could easily make a few hundred euro tax free on a trip (if the trip was a few days).

    For example a dinner rate could be 60 euro so if you ate in McDonald’s for a 10er you made 50 euro tax free.

    Daily rate is an approved way of paying expenses though as is totally above board. If you are making extra on a vouched system you need to be more careful.


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