Originally Posted by Athena53
I worked for a consulting firm with a "no-receipt, no-reimbursement" policy (which essentially meant no cash tips to hotel maids, curbside baggage guys, etc. were reimbursed). It was a royal pain. Once I didn't submit receipts for highway tolls and my boss and one of the beancounters called me and asked why! I think they did reimburse me but after that I made sure I had receipts for everything- even the 35 cent tolls on the friggin' Garden State Parkway.
A waste of good billable time and it always made me feel the company didn't trust me.
My father had a big battle with the IRS over no-receipt expenses. When you don't have a word of language in common and the vendor is illiterate besides, how are you supposed to get a receipt? Reason finally prevailed after months of back-and-forth. All they ended up dinging him on was a big check deducted in the wrong year. (IIRC he deducted it in the year he wrote it, not in the year the recipient received it. Something like 12/31 vs 1/2.) He hated the IRS for the rest of his life after that nonsense.