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Old Jan 8, 2011, 1:23 pm
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Skacorica
 
Join Date: Mar 2010
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Originally Posted by theoflyalot
sure, but if your company gives you a $50 pre-paid amex for food as a per-diem, they would not have added it to your income. And then if you end up spending that on something other than food, who cares. The irs cares about this as much as they care about taxing credit card points.

LAX UA 1k, I have to give you credit since you actually did take the time to answer to OPs question. And your response is well thought out. Its just a pet peeve of mine that people here sometimes spend the first 100 posts discussing the morality of what was actually a very interesting technical question.
Thanks, I also appreciate them answering and you defending me.

And to the rest of you, he is correct; it is a flat amount of money, strictly speaking, its not as the IRS intends, but then again, name me one consultant that purely uses their per diem for food? The IRS doesn't care about this, they care about the people they lose hundreds of thousands/millions a year lying on their taxes.
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