in my country it used to be like this for 50 years, you get flat rate per day, counted up to fractions of day, separately for accomodation and food + everything else. you only have to keep transportation tickets
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snooggums@piefed.world 3 weeks agoI used to be required to track all the receipts for travel years ago, and at some point like a decade ago the state figured out way more money was being spent on budgeting, reimbursing, and auditing each purchase individually than they would save by just doing a flat per diem rate for food and incidental expenses based on travel location.
I still keep my receipts long enough to make sure I'm not going over what I will be reimbursed, but shred them when I get home.
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Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Yeah we recently switched to per diem for meals. Still have to keep receipts for hotels and vehicle rentals/gas etc but it’s nice not having to juggle 60 meal receipts.