On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 4:45 AM, Simon Phipps <si...@webmink.com> wrote: > > On 26 Aug 2011, at 10:32, Florian Effenberger wrote: > >> Hi Italo, >> >> thanks for your engagement! >> >> Italo Vignoli wrote on 2011-08-26 11:04: >>> Including food, I will spend a maximum of 300 Euro. I am asking the >>> Steering Committee to approve this reimbursement. >> >> Given that we can pay this from SPI (paying from FrODeV is a bit problematic >> when it comes to travel costs and foreign countries, due to tax regulations) >> - +1 from my side. >> >> The only point we should talk about is "food" - as a general rule, normally >> reimbursements should only contain hotel and transportation, but no food. >> TDF has no rules yet on this, but maybe we should limit it to that? > > That's an odd rule. A reimbursement for a guest or for an emissary should > include Travel, Accommodation and Living. The only place in recent memory > that has told me it does not pay for Living is TDF.
Indeed, even the Tax-Man acknowledge that 'reasonable' meal re-reimbursement - during a remote mission - are tax-deductible (i.e. are not a 'compensation in kind'). Surely it is more a matter of 'reasonableness' and 'frugality' rather than a question of principle. Norbert -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/steering-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
