re: Business expense reports - what do you turn in?

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I get the points. The card is in my name I just don't pay the bill.

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You get the points for personal use?

I’m not going to use my company CC on a soda and chips while at the airport

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No, I get the points from that card. I don't have any personal expenses on the corporate card

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Not what I meant

I mean you get to use your points from your corporate card for personal use?

EVERYTHING...except cigarettes and alcohol when traveling for work...

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If I buy things on my personal card, it is for personal reasons, and I will not turn it in.

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On a business trip why even bring your personal card???... the trip itself implies everything you buy while on it is a business expense...

I worked with a guy who put a speeding ticket on his expense account. He was going 45 in a 25 zone. I warned him not to do it, but he did it anyway. He said that he wouldn't have gotten the ticket if he wasn't travelling for work. I told him he wouldn't have gotten the ticket if he didn't have such a lead foot. He expensed it.

It was a small company, maybe 20 employees. Not only did he not get paid, but he damn near got fired.

My car got towed in Houston while I was in meeting earlier this year.

Would you expense that?

If I am travelling for work they should cover every expense I incur.

Here is my advice to you (if you are interested):

Read your companies T&E policy...READ IT TO THE T and know it.

there is most likely a cutoff of what you need a receipt for...my old company was 20.00 and over needed a receipt, 19.99 and under no receipt.

It will also layout (officially or unofficially) the expected reasonable costs of each meal, something like:

12.00 breakfast
18.00 lunch
25-30.00 dinner

Submit BS expenses for every meal of every day you travel, breakfast lunch and dinner under 20.00; if you have a legit dinner over 20.00, try and only do it once or twice per trip.

Thats 50.00 per day that you dont need to account for cash in your pocket.

Have expense reimbursement direct deposited into a savings account, draw out like 120.00 for the trip and dont exceed. Use out of pocket cash if you do, you'll spend less if so.

This method always kept my expense reports clean, and I usually would clear 125 or so each trip. Then with me traveling 40 weeks a year, I could take the wife and kids on vacation once a year, or multiple weekend getaways with just us.

Disclaimer:
1) this wont work if mandatory company credit is required
2) pay for large dinners on your rewards miles credit card if possible then pay yourself out of account and also benefit from miles.
3) yes technically stealing...grow up, and remember that when your in a shite hole like Bay City TX hating your chosen profession, the thought that they are going to pay for your vacation will get you through the trip.
4) if your a big OT baller and have the 250 with large truck nuts, this doesnt apply to you, spend it and live large and wave to me from the scarab at crab island.