2024 Guide to Deducting Travel, Meals and Entertainment Expenses
Saturday, November 16, 2024
Webcast or Webinar, Online
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM (opens at 1:30 PM) EST
4Credits
Technical Business
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Members
$129.00 Regular Price
Non-Members
$159.00 Regular Price
Course Type: Webcast
Course Code: 24/AC128198
Level: Intermediate
Vendor: ACPEN
Field of Study: Taxes
Overview:
This program will explain the new rules for deducting travel, meals and entertainment expenses and the TCJA disallowance of business entertainment expenses. Documentation requirements and planning opportunities related to travel, entertainment, and automobile expenses will also be addressed.
**Please Note: If you need credit reported to the IRS for this IRS approved program, please download the IRS CE request form on the Course Materials Tab and submit to [email protected].
Objectives:
- Gain insight on the "big picture" in this complex area
- Distinguish the rules of determining travel and entertainment expenses
Major Topics:
- Recent tax legislation, rules and developments impacting travel and meals expense reporting
- Adequate accounting rules for reimbursements, including accountable plans, going paperless, reimbursement for non-deductible expenses
- Reporting travel expenses: travel status, simplified per diem
- "Directly related to" and associated with" tests
- Facility vs. activity expenses
- 9 exceptions to Section 274
- Business meals: IRS Notice 2018-76; 2023 mileage and per diem rates
Major Topics:
- Recent tax legislation, rules and developments impacting travel and meals expense reporting
- Adequate accounting rules for reimbursements, including accountable plans, going paperless, reimbursement for non-deductible expenses
- Reporting travel expenses: travel status, simplified per diem
- "Directly related to" and associated with" tests
- Facility vs. activity expenses
- 9 exceptions to Section 274
- Business meals: IRS Notice 2018-76; 2023 mileage and per diem rates