Field help: (2023) Number of days

Enter here the number of days on which you were absent from your home for work reasons for at least 8 but less than 24 hours.

In this case, you are entitled to a meal allowance of 14 Euro in Germany. In other countries, there are country-specific allowances depending on the country.

Your absence begins with the time you leave your home and ends with the time at which you return to it. The reason for the absence (working, traffic jam or other reason) is irrelevant.

If you go to your "primary place of work" before your business trip, your absence begins only when you leave this place.