Difference between commuting allowance and mileage allowance.
Attention: No changes to travel expenses!

Tax treatment of travel expenses and travel expense reimbursements for business and work-related trips abroad as of 1 January 2022

The topic of non-monetary compensation and travel expenses causes confusion time and again.

Since the 2014 travel expenses reform, there has been a new, clear regulation for the connection between non-cash benefits and travel expenses, which we explain below.

On your business trips you incur expenses for food, accommodation & Co. If you prepare a travel expense report, you can claim your travel expenses and have them reimbursed by your employer or save taxes vis-à-vis the tax office. We explain what travel expenses include and how the travel expense software Spesenfuchs supports you.

DATEV has discontinued its solutions Reisekosten classic, Reisekosten Vorerfassung and Arbeitnehmer online Meine Reisen by the end of 2021 and will no longer develop them further. Spesenfuchs has already created a new import interface so that you can conveniently import your employee master data.

Thanks to the interface, you automatically transfer your travel expense reports, receipts and the resulting bookings to your accounting software. A wizard ensures that relevant accounts are created for you so that you can then automatically transfer all completed trips to lexoffice.

If you have different projects or departments, then you can use cost centres/cost units to create order in your accounting. Store the numbers for each trip or store a cost centre and a cost unit for each user of Spesenfuchs.

With sevdesk integration, the transfer of booking data resulting from your travel expenses becomes child’s play. All relevant accounting data and receipts are simply transferred to sevdesk after an initial setup. This saves time and costs.

End of VAT reduction, increase in flat rates and non-monetary compensation. What’s new in 2021?