Expenses - what are your allowances?

mr_stat

mr_stat

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Just quick question folks. I was wondering what business expenses you are all entitled to when travelling with work?

Hotel ceiling (London): in £
Hotel ceiling (non London): in £
Full day expenses: (Breaky, Lunch and Dinner)
Flight class when travelling: (Econ / Econ + / Business / First)


Interested to see the spread between sectors etc...

Thanks :)

Mr_stat
 
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was working in london this week, hotel was £250 a night, for food we get £100 a day. There is only economy on the flight from aberdeen to london so no choice there.
 
slambo69 said:
was working in london this week, hotel was £250 a night, for food we get £100 a day. There is only economy on the flight from aberdeen to london so no choice there.
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Wow that is generous (we get ~£40 for all day allowance and ~£140 PN in London for a hotel - I knew we where getting screwed over :( )
 
Company books hotel, usually 4*+. Expenses for lunch, dinner, evening drinks etc. aren't limited. Within reason, of course. I could, for example, spend an evening eating a meal and then getting railed in the hotel lobby and as long as receipts are provided they don't really care.
 
slambo69 said:
was working in london this week, hotel was £250 a night, for food we get £100 a day. There is only economy on the flight from aberdeen to london so no choice there.
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£100 for food!! Holy crackers!

I'm entitled to any expenses as long as its justified (not £100 for food :p) as it only gets passed on to the client anyway (consultancy work).
 
Pestilence said:
Company books hotel, usually 4*+. Expenses for lunch, dinner, evening drinks etc. aren't limited. Within reason, of course. I could, for example, spend an evening eating a meal and then getting railed in the hotel lobby and as long as receipts are provided they don't really care.
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Ditto, except it need to be reasonable and sign off by a partner.

A couple of bottles of wine at dinner to entertain clients is fine.

A bottle alone at breakfast is not.
 
Pestilence said:
Company books hotel, usually 4*+. Expenses for lunch, dinner, evening drinks etc. aren't limited. Within reason, of course. I could, for example, spend an evening eating a meal and then getting railed in the hotel lobby and as long as receipts are provided they don't really care.
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Gooner Leroy said:
£100 for food!! Holy crackers!

I'm entitled to any expenses as long as its justified (not £100 for food :p) as it only gets passed on to the client anyway (consultancy work).
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Its actually more similar to what pestilence says, I work for a consultancy, there is no specified limit for food, but we impose that ourselves so it doesnt look like we are taking the pee...
 
Bottom run at a job (trainee surveyor) we used to get hotel paid for (travellodge/premierinn etc) or a local rat infested one if we were really lucky, spent a month in one of them in Dartford for £50 a night. Breakfast included, £6 for lunch then £10-12 for evening. Would usually submit about £350 a week in expenses including fuel card and other essentials. This was for a job where most of the working week was away from home and there's only so much you can eat out before being sick of it in the same area.

Still beats the last job where the supervisor managed to get us a takeaway, hotel and breakfast for £15 for one overnight job.
 
Hotel ceiling (London): in £ No real limit, whatever the client is happy to pay usually spend around £200 a night on a room.

Hotel ceiling (non London): in £ Again no real limit depends which country i'm in for example Angola was around $600 a night.

Full day expenses: (Breaky, Lunch and Dinner) No limit per say, whatever the client is happy to pay, long as it's kept reasonable, i.e. no more than £50 for an evening meal.

Flight class when travelling: Business or First, sometimes economy on 1hr flights.

In addition we get a chauffeur to the airports, ontop of all other costs we get additional money per day for being away from home, which is worth around £160 per day ontop of my wages and the above expenses i can claim.
 
Flights are interesting, for flights that last less than 8 hours we have to go cattle class, but it has to be semi-flexible ticket. Which means they are 2-3 times the normal cost, plus the company is charged at least £60 if you change the ticket. So basically we get all the disadvantages of business class (the cost) but none of the advantages. It's fantastic.
 
I work in that most hated of industries.. well for the time being.

Hotel ceiling (London): in £300 5 day notice £200 1 month notice
Hotel ceiling (non London): in £ 200 5 day notice £150 1 month notice
Full day expenses: (Breaky, Lunch and Dinner): £60, Eur 80, CHF 150
Flight class when travelling: (Econ / Econ + / Business / First), No 1st allowed unless its impossible to get premier economy or business on longhaul flights. Virgin trains - always 1st class due to wi-fi

But all that is rubbish, entertaining clients is where its at :D
 
It's all charged to the client but hotel is whatever is on the approved list for the area. These vary in cost depending on where and which one you pick. There's good choice and always something nice to pick :)

Can't remember what the limit is for breakfast but it's always covered, and dinner is £25 which seeing as I don't drink isn't too stingy, but could be better :)

Haven't really looked into the expenses policy yet though as only started there a couple of weeks ago.
 
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GrimsbyLAD said:
Hotel at up to 60 a night and food at 15 a day.
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For outside of London, this sounds the most reasonable. Other posters in this thread - those are some crazy amounts! Like £50 food allowance for 1 night?

Don't know about my new firm, but my old firm (computer reseller) chucked us into Travel Lodges and food allowance was about the same as you Grimsby, £15 per day.

Hell even when I'm on short holidays e.g. Nottingham Goose Fair in October, I book myself a 3-star single room for only £32 per night through Late Rooms web site. This includes a full English breakfast and I spend about £10 on food per day at the fair, pubs, train station combined. Just shows that it's possible to travel cheap outside London :-)
 
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