"Take your spouse to a nice holiday dinner and expense it"

[Anonymous]

DH works for a European based company. They didn't include the US team in the holiday party and instead said take your spouse out to a nice holiday dinner and expense it.

What amount do you think is reasonable for a "nice holiday dinner"?

[Anonymous]

$40 at an Olive Garden

[Anonymous]

DH get this occasionally for his work anniversaries. The last time we went to Pineapples and Pearls. I would go for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DH works for a European based company. They didn't include the US team in the holiday party and instead said take your spouse out to a nice holiday dinner and expense it.

What amount do you think is reasonable for a "nice holiday dinner"?

How big is the company? I doubt they care whether its 150 vs 200 vs 300 vs 325.

Come in asking for 900 for a dinner for two and maybe they will ask questions.

[Anonymous]

$500.

Bring whoever you like.

[Anonymous]

Probably 200-300. If you take too much advantage, they might take this perk away next year, so I'd keep it reasonable.

[Anonymous]

I'd say 300 max.

[Anonymous]

Inn at Little Washington!

[Anonymous]

Ask

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DH works for a European based company. They didn't include the US team in the holiday party and instead said take your spouse out to a nice holiday dinner and expense it.

What amount do you think is reasonable for a "nice holiday dinner"?

That's illegal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DH works for a European based company. They didn't include the US team in the holiday party and instead said take your spouse out to a nice holiday dinner and expense it.

What amount do you think is reasonable for a "nice holiday dinner"?

That's illegal.

How so? It's no different than a spouse accompanying the employee to a company paid holiday party.

[Anonymous]

Go to Bazaar! It's insanely expensive, but I'm dying to try that $50 iberico ham. This seems like a great excuse to go a bit bigger than usual.

[Anonymous]

Under $500

[Anonymous]

I'd cap it at $500. You can get a very nice dinner for that price and I personally wouldn't want to be the employee that pushed the limit to the max to find the breaking point. This is a nice holiday bonus!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DH works for a European based company. They didn't include the US team in the holiday party and instead said take your spouse out to a nice holiday dinner and expense it.

What amount do you think is reasonable for a "nice holiday dinner"?

That's illegal.

How so? It's no different than a spouse accompanying the employee to a company paid holiday party.

It doesn’t meet the tax requirements to “expense it” if that’s the manner it was used.