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DD 9: Relationship with fringe benefit tax rules
or “How entertainment expense deductions and fringe benefit tax rules work together”
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“How to treat employee reimbursements and split costs for entertainment expenses”

When you pay an allowance or reimburse an employee for entertainment expenses, it’s treated as if you spent the money on entertainment yourself. This applies to the entertainment described in section DD 2. The allowance or reimbursement must be exempt income under sections CW 17, CW 17B, CW 17C, and CW 17CB. These sections are about employee expenses and reimbursements.

If you spend money on something that’s only partly related to entertainment, you need to split the cost fairly. You should only count the part that’s actually for entertainment.

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Part D Deductions
Entertainment expenditure

DD 10Interpretation: reimbursement and apportionment

  1. In sections DD 2 to DD 8,—

  2. a person is treated as having incurred expenditure on entertainment described in section DD 2 if they pay an allowance for, or reimburse an employee’s expenditure on, the entertainment, and the allowance or reimbursement is exempt income under sections CW 17, CW 17B, CW 17C, and CW 17CB (which relate to expenditure and reimbursement of employees):
    1. if a person incurs expenditure that relates only partly to the entertainment, the expenditure must be apportioned appropriately.

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      Notes
      • Section DD 10(a): amended, on , by section 52 of the Taxation (Annual Rates, Employee Allowances, and Remedial Matters) Act 2014 (2014 No 39).
      • Section DD 10(a): amended (with effect on 1 April 2008), on , by section 85 of the Taxation (International Taxation, Life Insurance, and Remedial Matters) Act 2009 (2009 No 34).