Does anyone have resources or benchmarking for appropriate meal expense allowance amounts for 2024 (breakfast/lunch/dinner) for employees travelling on business?

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CFO Transformation - North Americaa year ago

Great question... same question for hotels.

Corporate Risk Officer in Services (non-Government)a year ago

For Continental U.S. we use GSA and for Foreign travel, we use Department of State. You can find a link to both through the Defense Travel Management Office:

https://www.gsa.gov/travel?topnav=travel

CTO in Finance (non-banking)a year ago

I’ve used https://www.travelperk.com/calculators/per-diem/ , the excel export or desktop version gives you breakdown for breakfast/lunch/dinner and incidentals

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