Expenses and benefits: incidental overnight expenses

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Overview

As an employer providing incidental overnight expenses to your employees, you have certain tax, National Insurance and reporting obligations.

What’s included

‘Incidental overnight expenses’ are personal (non-business) expenses incurred by an employee while travelling overnight on business.

Examples of incidental expenses are:

  • buying newspapers
  • paying for laundry
  • phoning home