MA000050 Out-Port Meal Allowances

Where an employee is not at their home port and is required to eat and/or sleep ashore the following allowances will be payable:

$18.70 for breakfast, $21.90 for lunch and $35.27 for dinner, per day

This is a type of expense allowance where we would not expect the employee to claim a deduction for this in their tax return

Withhold tax from this allowance

This allowance forms part of ordinary times earnings

Include this allowance for payroll tax purposes

Include this allowance as part of gross wages

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