Field help: (2024) Have you incurred expenses for meals abroad?

Enter here the sum of the additional expenses for meals incurred abroad.

For business trips abroad, other flat-rate amounts apply for the additional expenses for meals. If you do not know the flat-rate amounts, enter information for off-site work individually in Lohnsteuer kompakt.

The flat-rate amounts for the additional meal expenses vary depending on the country. Separate amounts are even set for particularly expensive cities. The flat rates are derived from the Federal Travel Expenses Act (Bundesreisekostengesetz) and are reissued by the Federal Ministry of Finance (Bundesfinanzministerium) from time to time.

For each full day of absence, the country-specific meal allowance is 120% and on days with an absence of more than 8 hours as well as on arrival and departure days, 80% of the highest daily allowances abroad.