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Travel: Tax Allowances

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has plans to review and update the Overseas Scale Rates.

answeredTreasury

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Answering body
Treasury
Tabled
30 Aug 2024
Target answer date
3 Sept 2024
Answer
9 Sept 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 30 Aug 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has plans to review and update the Overseas Scale Rates.

  2. 3 Sept 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 9 Sept 2024

    Answer published

    Employers have a choice about whether to use the Overseas Scale Rates (OSR) or to pay the actual expenses incurred. If an employer pays actual expenses, they must check the employees’ receipts, but they do not have to do this if they use the OSR. There wi...

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