2024 Guide to Deducting Travel, Meals and Entertainment Expenses
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 kori.herrera@acpen.com.
Highlights
- 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
Prerequisites
Basic working knowledge of business expense reporting
Designed For
Practitioners, members in industry, or personnel responsible for payroll tax reporting or determining and reviewing travel and entertainment deductions
Objectives
- Gain insight on the "big picture" in this complex area
- Distinguish the rules of determining travel and entertainment expenses
Preparation
None
Notice
This course is offered by a 3rd party vendor and will not be accessible in the My CPE Tracker section of the ISCPA website. Course access information will be emailed directly to you by Accounting Continuing Professional Education Network (ACPEN).
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Doug Van Der Aa, Federal Tax Workshops Inc
Doug has been a discussion leader for Federal Tax Workshops, Inc., for the past 11 years. He is a lively and energetic speaker – especially on the subject of taxes and ethics, and has extensive experience in leading discussions in conferences, seminars and webinars. He is a regular and highly rated speaker and seminar leader for CPA associations other organizations throughout the country. Doug has over 25 years of professional experience, including tax practice in CPA firms and the practice of transactional business and real estate law as an attorney. As a CPA, Doug’s practice concentrated on the tax needs of closely held businesses, with their related pass-through entities, complex individual returns, estates and trusts. Doug taught for 10 years as an Adjunct Instructor and for one year as Assistant Professor of Accounting and Taxation for Grand Valley State University’s Seidman College of Business, where he taught in both the undergraduate and MST programs. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in accounting from Dordt College and his Juris Doctor from the University of Illinois College of Law.
Non-Member Price $159.00
Member Price $129.00