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Practical manual for Income Tax 2020.

Tax consideration of travel expenses and allowances

Regulations: Articles 17.1 d) Law IRPF and 9 Regulations

Note:  with regard to the travel, food and lodging expenses exempt from taxation, it must be taken into account that it is not the employee who is responsible for proving the reality of the travel and food and lodging expenses, but rather the employer. Therefore, it is the latter who is obliged to prove, where appropriate, to the Administration that the amounts paid for those concepts correspond to trips made on a certain day and place, due to or by reason of the development of his work activity (Supreme Court ruling no. 429/2020, of May 18)

  1. Locomotion expenses exempt from tax
  2. Maintenance and stay expenses exempt from tax