IRS 2019-20 New Rates in Effect for Business Travelers

If you are a regular business traveler incurring expenses, This is your heads up that as of Oct1, there are new IRS per-diem rates in effect.  The daily business traveler expenses are broken into three categories:

1. Special transportation industry meal and incidental expenses, or M&IE rates
   • $66 for locations in the continental United States (CONUS)
   • $71 for any location outside of the continental United States (CONUS).
2. Incidental expenses only deduction is $5 per day
3. Rates and list of high-cost localities for purposes of the high-low substantiation method.
   • $297 for travel to any high cost locality ($71 as paid for meals)
   • $200 for travel to other locations within CONUS ($60 as paid for meals)

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