food and taxes

Just take the transportation per diem allowance. That's what it's for and you will get more of a deduction than taking actual expenses.

 

Thats what the daily Per-Diem is for, no need to separate your food expenses out, just use the daily allowance.

 

I don't think eating on the road is a business expenses, because you also have eat at home. If you took people out for some kind of business meeting and paid for everyone that be ok or if you took shipper or broker out for dinner get get more business. The other big problem is you already have Per Diem as a taxes write off for food we all buy on the road as drivers.

 

Of course meals on the road are a business expense.
Why else would the IRS have a Per Diem allowance?

 

Your correct they are. I thought everyone took Per Diem vs keep track of all the receipts

 

Meals/entertainment are 50% business vs personal, no alcohol unles purchased as a gift for a customer. Last I heard anyway.

 

He's not asking about business entertainment deductions.

He's asking about deducting meals on the road as an O/O for himself. He ether keeps all receipts and deduct the actual experiences or he can do the Per Diem deduction.

 

I understand that- the bread crumbs I was leaving, while not being explicit, was that x amount of nights out with per diem might be a bunch less than all the receipted meals and entertainment x50% would be. Depends who you are and how you live.
I don’t sleep in trucks anymore so I don’t get that per diem allowance but I do spend quite a bit on receipted daily expenses on the same front.

it’s a business decision to make imo