Reference standards for expenses during business trips of public officials are as follows:

A new regulation on travel meals and in-town transportation expenses

Recently, the General Office of the Ministry of Finance, the Office of the State Administration of Organ Affairs, the Office of the Administration of the **** Central Directly Subordinate Organs of the Central Authorities Jointly issued the Notice on Matters Relating to the Standardization of the Management of Travel Meal Expenses and Municipal Transportation Expenses (hereinafter referred to as the Notice), which categorizes and refines the standards and management requirements for the payment of travel meal expenses and municipal transportation expenses, standardizes the management of vouchers issued by the reception units and the collection of expenses, and clarifies the division of responsibilities between the relevant central and local departments. The Notice will come into force on August 1, 2019 onwards.

1, how to pay for meals

The Notice refines the relevant provisions of previous regulations. For example, the "central and state organs travel expenses management measures" provides that "travelers should eat on their own. Where meals are arranged by the reception unit, the meal expenses should be paid to the reception unit" and "If the travelers are provided with transportation by the reception unit or other units, they should pay the relevant expenses to the reception unit or other units".

"Notice" clearly, the central unit of the travelers (hereinafter referred to as the travelers) during the trip to receive meal allowance according to regulations. In addition to a working meal arranged by the reception unit in accordance with the provisions of the work needs, the cost of meals on their own. If the traveler needs the assistance of the reception unit in arranging meals, he should inform the control standard in advance and pay the meal expenses to the meal provider.

If there is an external charge for meals in the internal cafeteria of the organization, the traveler shall pay according to the standard; if there is no external charge, the traveler shall pay 20% of the daily meal allowance for breakfast and 40% of the daily meal allowance for lunch and dinner.

If you eat in hotels, restaurants and other food service units, you will pay the relevant fees in accordance with the standards for food service units.

2, how to pay the city transportation fee?

The Notice makes it clear that the travelers will receive the city transportation fee according to the regulations.

Hospitality units to assist in providing transportation and have a fee standard, the traveler according to the standard payment, up to a maximum of the day of the city transportation standard; there is no fee standard, per person per half-day according to the day of the city transportation standard of 50% payment.

Hospitality units to assist in arranging meals, provide transportation, business travelers should ask for the corresponding administrative unit funds settlement bills or tax invoices and other vouchers, personal retention for inspection, not as a basis for reimbursement.

The Notice stipulates that the reception unit shall collect the relevant expenses of the travelers in accordance with the regulations, and issue the administrative and institutional funds settlement bills or tax invoices in a timely manner; if it is indeed impossible to issue the above vouchers, other receipts can be issued. Strengthen the management of the collection of fees, do a good job of business ledger registration, into a unified accounting, the fees charged can be used as a collection for the relevant expenditures or as income processing.

II. Travel and Accommodation Fees

On April 1, 2016, the Ministry of Finance issued a notice on the "Detailed Table of Travel and Accommodation Fee Standards for Staff of the Central and State Organs Going to Local Places" stipulating that, for ministerial-level officials traveling to Beijing, the standard accommodation fee is limited to RMB 1,100 per day, for officials of the division level it is limited to RMB 650 per day and for others The daily limit is 500 yuan.

Ministry-level officials traveling to Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Dalian and Jilin are mostly subject to a daily limit of 800 yuan.

Third, transportation costs

In the Measures for the Administration of Travel Expenses of the Central and State Organs, which have been implemented since 2014, both inter-city and intra-city transportation costs are clearly stipulated.

1. Intercity Transportation Expenses

Intercity transportation expenses refer to the expenses incurred by staff members who travel outside of their permanent place of residence by train, ship, airplane and other means of transportation on official business. Travelers should take transportation in accordance with the prescribed class. The rank of transportation is shown in the following table:

Ministerial level and equivalent positions on business trips, due to work needs, accompanying one person can take the same level of transportation. If they do not take the transportation according to the prescribed class, the overspending shall be taken care of by themselves.

When there are various means of transportation available to the destination of a business trip, the traveler shall take the economical and convenient means of transportation on the premise of not interfering with official business and ensuring safety.

The civil aviation development fund and fuel surcharge can be reimbursed by air. If you take the airplane, train, ship and other means of transportation, you can buy a traffic accident insurance per person. If your organization purchases traffic accident insurance, you will not have to repeat the purchase.

2, the city of transportation

The city of transportation refers to the staff for business travel during the city of transportation costs.

The city transportation fee is calculated according to the number of natural days of travel, 80 yuan per person per day inclusive use.

If the traveler is provided with transportation by the reception unit or other units, he/she shall pay the relevant fees to the reception unit or other units.

Four, meal expenses

"Party and government organs of domestic official reception regulations" pointed out that the reception object should be in accordance with the prescribed standards for their own meals. Indeed, because of work needs, the reception unit can arrange a working meal, and strictly control the number of accompanying meals. Reception object within 10 people, the number of people accompanying the meal shall not exceed 3 people; more than 10 people, shall not exceed one-third of the number of reception object.

Working meals should be supplied with home-cooked food, and should not provide high-grade dishes such as shark's fin and bird's nest, or dishes made from wild animals, cigarettes and high-grade drinks, or use of private clubs or high-consumption catering establishments.

V. Conference Fees

On June 29, 2016, the Ministry of Finance issued the Measures for the Administration of Conference Fees of Central and State Organs.

The Measures specify the comprehensive quota standards for conference fees: one category of meetings is capped at 760 yuan per person per day, two categories of meetings are capped at 650 yuan per person per day, and three or four categories of meetings are capped at 550 yuan per person per day.