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December 20, 2019
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Meals expense for truckers in a partnership.

  • December 20, 2019
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Partnership with 2 truckers.  How do they account for meals expense?  Do they pay themselves the per diem rate for each night they are out of town?  And then deduct it at 80% on the tax return?

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Best answer by George4Tacks

The partnership should have a written reimbursement policy. Trips should be fairly easy to document with their log. Each trucker should submit a reimbursement request (e.g. https://www.google.com/search?q=reimbusement+request and that would be non taxable item for the trucker. The partnership would then take the deduction. 

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George4Tacks
Level 15
December 28, 2019

The partnership should have a written reimbursement policy. Trips should be fairly easy to document with their log. Each trucker should submit a reimbursement request (e.g. https://www.google.com/search?q=reimbusement+request and that would be non taxable item for the trucker. The partnership would then take the deduction. 

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