MA000079 Meal Allowance - Working Away From Usual Workplace

Where an employee is directed to work at a place other than their usual place of employment:

in the case of economy air travel an allowance of $10.00 must be paid for each meal period occurring during the duration of the travel provided the employee did not receive a meal in flight for each period concerned.

$10.00 for each meal period occurring during travel

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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