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Re: Another jobsworth ticket inspector, this one acting for Virgin Trains

"Neil Williams" <wensleydale@pacersplace.org.uk> wrote in message
news:48f273e1.35357002@news.individual.net...
> On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:22:18 +0100, "Peter Masson"
> <peter.masson1@privacy.net> wrote:
>
>>OK if you pay off your credit card in full during the interest-free
>>period,
>>and your employer reimburses expenses in time. Otherwise you pay the
>>interest on your expenses, or give your employer an interest-free loan,
>>or
>>both.
>
> Indeed, which is why it is explicitly not the same thing as an expense
> account (or a corporate card settled by the company), where the
> company would settle, and if an expense was rejected it would
> presumably be reclaimed by being docked from the following month's
> pay.
>


We used to have flat rate expense allowance so if you stayed somewhere
cheaper then you could pocket the difference.  They started wanting
receipts to keep the Inland Revenue happy (though the IR's own allowances
were higher of course!) so you would often go in a hotel which would cost
more than the flat rate allowance.  I heard of some organisations like BT
that moved to the company booking and paying for all accommodation
themselves which resulted in some of their people turning up in their large
vans at 5 star hotels with valet parking costing far more than if they had
arranged their own accommodation.

The trouble with expenses is that you always got jealousy from those who
were very rarely on expenses, they thought it was a perk whereas being away
from home most of the week stuck in a hotel room was just a PITA to most of
those doing it.

MB

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