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3290550 - How Meals Per Diem Deduction Is calculated In Germany When Lodging Is Not Involved

Symptom

You have created an Expense Report and Meals Per Diem Deduction is only considered for the first day and ignored on the Second day. The Expense Report is created for a 2 day trip.

Kindly note that Expense Report does not involve Lodging.

Environment

SAP Business By Design

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Travel and Expenses Work center.
  2. Go to Expense Reports.
  3. Find Expense Report > Preview.
  4. In the Preview you could see that the Per Diems is Calculated only for the First Day and Ignored for the Second day

Resolution

This is the intended and correct system behavior according to German Law in case of Expense Report.Expense Report is a two-day trip without lodging.In this case, the absence time of two days are calculated together as only one interval. If this one absence interval includes more than 24 hours,this is in fact as per definition in ByDesign Travel & Expense always the Per Diem of the first day is considered while the 2nd day will be neglected.

See Also

3108615 - How Meals Per Diem Deductions are Calculated in Germany

Keywords

Meal Per Diem Deduction,Germany,Lodging,Expense Report , KBA , meal per diem deduction , meal per diem germany , SRD-FIN-ERM , Travel and Expense Management , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions