2751038 - Meals Per Diem When Crossing Border From Germany

• Travel Expenses for a multi-day trip from Germany to a foreign country.
• During this trip you cross the border to a foreign country every day but you return to Germany for an overnight stay in a hotel.
• This scenario is only valid for Travel Expenses in Germany.

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1. Go to the Travel and Expenses Work Center.
2. Go to the Expense Reports View.
3. Show all Expense Reports, find XXX (where XXX represents the Expense Report ID).
4. Press Edit.
5. Press Add more Destinations.

Every day the Employee crossed the border to a foreign country. In the evening the Employee returned to Germany for an overnight stay in a hotel. Therefore the meals per diems for the foreign country was applied. However expect that the meals per diems from Germany apply due to the 24 hour rule.

• For a multi-day trip usually the 24 hour rule applies. This rule says that if you cross the border to a foreign country then still the Travel Expenses from Germany are valid.
• In case you cross the border to a foreign country every day and you return every evening to Germany due to Popp 'Handbuch Reisekostenrecht 2014' page 137 this 24 hour rule is no longer valid.
• Due to German law the meals per diems from the foreign country are valid, not the ones from Germany.

The system works as expected since the 24 hour rule for Germany does not apply in this case.

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