Advanced seminar on travel expenses

Special features - consolidation - practical cases

This training is held in German.
Fit from A to Z in travel expenses: In every company, there are "perennial issues" where you need to argue in depth. Topics such as external activities, customer assignments or secondments are dealt with in depth, as are questions about the first place of work, double housekeeping and the tax treatment of travel expenses. Our practice-oriented content will prepare you for an efficient and correct travel expense report that will stand up to scrutiny.

Contents

First place of work

  • What pitfalls lurk in the deployment of Employees within the Group or in the wording of employment contracts?
  • Explanations on the first place of work with numerous examples.

Additional meal expenses, travel expenses, overnight stays

  • Regulations for the payment of additional meal expenses.
  • Three-month period - when does it apply?
  • Pure practice: tax-free reimbursement of the BahnCard, cab receipts, indication of tax rates on the receipts.
  • Hotel accommodation at home and abroad: In which cases and in what amount must a meal be taken into account?

Catering vs. hospitality vs. working lunch

  • Delimitation of catering, hospitality and customer invitations, seminar catering, working lunches, invitations of external and own employees: Monetary benefit?

Criteria for trips abroad

  • Day of arrival and return, last place of work, air travel, documents to be carried.

Questions on dual household management

  • What does this mean?
  • Significance for practice, possibility of tax-free assumption of costs and certification obligations.
  • Tightening of the requirements for own household.
  • Upper limit for accommodation costs.

Formalities: travel expense regulations, certification obligations, input tax deduction

  • Why you should have a travel expense policy and what it could look like (incl. sample).
  • What "correct" invoices, hospitality receipts, cab receipts and hotel bills should look like. When can you accept a "personal receipt" - and what do you have to certify?

Learning environment

In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this qualification measure after you have registered.

Your benefit

With this training you will expand and deepen your basic knowledge of travel expenses, e.g. from the course "Accounting travel expenses correctly" (Webinfo no. 8790).

The training brings you

  • the opportunity to discuss your practical questions with the:der trainer ,
  • Solutions for your everyday life,
  • more confidence in accounting for travel expenses and in dealing with colleagues and superiors for whom you process travel expenses,
  • Arguments in discussions with internal audit and/or the external wage tax audit.

You can bring in problem cases from your daily practice, for which an individual solution will be worked out together.

Methods

Essentially a lecture with many examples, time for questions from participants, comprehensive script with suggested wording for a travel expenses policy. The participants ' main areas of interest can be taken into account intensively.

Recommended for

Travel expense accountants who already have basic knowledge of tax travel expense law and want to deepen or update their knowledge; supervisors who are responsible for travel expenses; secretarial staff and Employees in the HR department.

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Attendees comments

"Best training in years! The speaker fully addressed all questions and answered them comprehensively and very competently."

Judith Matthes
Control Risks

"I give the training a grade of 1! Mainly because of the lively way in which the speaker presented and the very understandable way in which the topics were conveyed."

Klaudia Goliasch
Savings Banks Assoc. Rhineland-Palatinate

"I was able to ask many questions about my own cases and received very good tips for my work practice."

Corinna Keggenhoff
Dassault Systemes Simulia GmbH

"The training was very practice-oriented. Very good and up-to-date training documents. The lecturer responded individually to all questions. I can only recommend it to others. Top. Please keep up the good work!"

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Toll Collect GmbH

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Brands Fashion GmbH

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Business Class on business trips

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Articles, interviews or whitepapers on the topic

First place of work

The "first place of work" is an important concept in German tax and employment law. It refers to the place where employees usually carry out their work and has an impact on the tax treatment of travel costs and additional meal expenses. In this article, we will take a closer look at the definition of the first place of work and its significance in German employment law. Definition of the first place of work Statutory [...]

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Business Class on business trips

Wednesday evening 22:45, Ms. Vonderstrass switches her computer to flight mode and closes it. Her flight LX 176 from Zurich via Singapore to Melbourne is heading straight for the tarmac and Ms. Vonderstrass is enjoying this short breather. Immediately after take-off, she uses the long-haul flight to prepare for her business trip lasting several days. Ms. Vonderstrass is an employed managing director [...]

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03.06.2025
Munich
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22.07.2025
Berlin
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10.03.2026
Cologne
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Tuesday, 10.03.2026

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20.03.2026
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29.04.2026
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19.05.2026
Stuttgart
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