Comments on: Escorts are legit expense, Oz court told

By: Jim Collins

Jim Collins — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:25:07 +0000

Markm at the time(1988)I was being paid $75 a day per diem with no requirement to account for how I spent it. I know the tax laws have changed since then and it doesn’t happen that way now. After reading more about this I found out that he was not authorized to use the company card in that manner and was justly fired.

By: markm

markm — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:09:52 +0000

Jim: I don’t know about the Aussies, but most American companies pay travel expenses on a basis of actual costs up to a per-day limit. It sounds like Sinados was getting actual costs – with either no limit or a remarkably generous limit.

Second, at least under American tax laws the cash you received would be taxable income – and so would be reimbursements for expenses such as Sinado’s “entertainment”.

By: Jim Collins

Jim Collins — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:16:14 +0000

I have to ask a question. Was this guy fired because he misused the company’s credit card, or was he fired because he spent money for escorts? I worked a job several years ago where I travelled extensively. I had a per diem allotment of so much per day. To make things simpler I was issued a company credit card and was authorized to use the card to cover my per diem expenses. The majority of the time I worked around the clock while I was on the road and very rarely spent my per diem allotment. As my company considered per diem as part of my pay I was free to spend the balance when I returned home. If this guy had the same type of deal and what he spent was what the company owed him then I think that his being fired was a load of crap. If he was spending funds that he wasn’t authorized to spend then he deserved to be fired.