Originally Posted by thegeneral
I'm wondering what other business travellers face when they're travelling.
Does your company do a per diem or do you submit receipts?
What are your meal expense policies like?
Are you able to be flexible at all in choosing flights?
Up to $25 per day without receipts for tips, misc, etc. Anything else such as taxis, rental cars, rooms, etc needs receipts.
Meal allowance is up to $45 per day, must have receipts. Only exceptions are entertaining clients, which is actually a seperate line item on our reports. Totally different set of rules to go by in that case.
We have a corporate travel office that books all of our flights and hotels. This has it's good and bad points. I do have some flexibility over which flight times, seats, etc thru the HR coordinator in my division. She relays everything to the corp office and gets everything booked. On the bad side, most all of our East Coast and SE employees usually have to fly US Airlines. Not much flexibility, but we deal with it.
