{"id":36,"date":"2009-02-10T14:57:26","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T22:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.huddlestontaxcpas.com\/?p=36"},"modified":"2009-02-10T14:57:26","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T22:57:26","slug":"deducting-meals-as-a-business-expense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huddlestontaxcpas.com\/blog\/deducting-meals-as-a-business-expense\/","title":{"rendered":"Deducting Meals as a Business Expense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When keeping track of meals for your business as an expense, keep in mind that some meals are only 50% deductible while others are deductible at 100%.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meals that are 50% deductible:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Meals for business meetings of employees, stockholders, etc.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Meals during business travel.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Meals at conventions and seminars<\/li>\n<li>Meals with clients and customers<\/li>\n<li>Meals that are related to employee travel that are reimbursed to the employee at 100% are still only 50% deductible<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Meals that are 100% deductible:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Company parties<\/li>\n<li>Snacks for the office like coffee and donuts<\/li>\n<li>Food used in promotion that is made available to the public for free<\/li>\n<li>Meals provided to employees in the office for the convenience of the employer (provided it is given to more than half of the employees).\u00a0 This works if you want to give employees dinner to keep them working later<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have questions regarding whether your meal expense is 50% or 100% deductible it is always best to consult your tax advisor.\u00a0 Always remember to keep adequate records of your meals by keeping things such as the reciepts.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/huddlestontax.com\/\">Jessica Chisholm, CPA<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/huddlestontax.com\/\">Seattle\/Bellevue Tax Accountants<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When keeping track of meals for your business as an expense, keep in mind that some meals are only 50% deductible while others are deductible at 100%.\u00a0 Meals that are 50% deductible: Meals for business meetings of employees, stockholders, etc.\u00a0 Meals during business travel.\u00a0 Meals at conventions and seminars Meals with clients and customers Meals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-36","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-small-business","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huddlestontaxcpas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huddlestontaxcpas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huddlestontaxcpas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huddlestontaxcpas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huddlestontaxcpas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/huddlestontaxcpas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huddlestontaxcpas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huddlestontaxcpas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huddlestontaxcpas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}