Tag Archive for: Travel expenses

From 01.01.2026, the reduced VAT rate of 7% will once again apply to food in the catering trade. In this article, you can find out what effects this has on entertainment expenses, business meals and travel expenses – and how Spesenfuchs automatically takes the legal change into account.

New per diems for meals and remuneration in kind will come into force on January 1, 2026. While the domestic per diems remain unchanged, the Federal Ministry of Finance has adjusted the foreign per diems for numerous countries. This article provides you with a compact overview of the most important changes and explains how Spesenfuchs is already taking the new values into account.

When companies employ mobile workers, accounting and travel expense accounting quickly become a problem. Excel spreadsheets, email inboxes or individual accounting accesses quickly reach their limits, especially with several field staff and complex travel policies. A system that links all information in a meaningful way, from receipt to approval to the final invoice, is more suitable.

Anyone who travels a lot on business is familiar with the problem: additional meal costs are incurred on business trips that are not incurred in everyday life. To compensate for this, the legislator provides for what is known as additional meal expenses. In this article, you will learn how to calculate the 2025 per diem meal allowance correctly, which current per diems apply – and how Spesenfuchs offers you a simple, digital solution for travel expense accounting.

The Federal Council has approved the Wachstumschancengesetz . The original increase in domestic flat rates was canceled. This means that the previous flat rates for Germany will also apply in 2024.

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

An overview of the different file formats based on a travel expense report.

With the DATEV export you can easily provide your tax advisor with all relevant booking data of your travel expense reports. DATEV is a common format among tax consultants. Thus, you can be sure that your tax advisor can work with it. And because your tax advisor can post your travel expense reports faster, you save money.

As a result of the decision of the grand coalition on June 3, 2020, the value-added tax in Germany was reduced from 19 percent to 16 percent as of July 1, 2020, under the Corona Tax Relief Act. The reduced tax rate is now only 5% instead of 7%.