{"id":24,"date":"2017-04-21T16:34:30","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T22:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fbs.admin.utah.edu\/epayment-request\/?p=24"},"modified":"2020-06-01T09:15:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T15:15:38","slug":"guideline-effective-may-1-approvals-necessary-for-sales-tax-and-business-meal-reimbursement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fbs.admin.utah.edu\/epayment-request\/news\/2017\/04\/21\/guideline-effective-may-1-approvals-necessary-for-sales-tax-and-business-meal-reimbursement\/","title":{"rendered":"Guideline Effective May 1: Approvals necessary for Sales Tax and Business Meal Reimbursement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ePR better allows us&nbsp;to monitor submissions related to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Reimbursement of Business Meals<\/span> &#8211; see <a href=\"http:\/\/regulations.utah.edu\/administration\/3-010.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Policy 3-031<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Reimbursement of Utah Sales Tax<\/span> in situations where a more preferred procurement method should have been used by the employee &#8211; see <a href=\"http:\/\/regulations.utah.edu\/administration\/rules\/R3-010A.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rule 3-010A<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jeff West, Associate Vice President has published&nbsp;a <a href=\"http:\/\/fbs.admin.utah.edu\/download\/fbs\/epr_sales_tax_meals.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">memo<\/a> meant to clarify the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">approvals<\/span> necessary for&nbsp;these types of reimbursements, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">beginning May 1<\/span>, we will return ePR submissions to the Preparer to&nbsp;correct the approvals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New:<\/strong> Departmental Deans may now delegate their authority related to approving Sales Tax reimbursement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Clarification<\/strong> &#8211; Meal&nbsp;and food&nbsp;reimbursements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Business Meals where employees host vendors, contractors, recruits, etc. require approval from VP, Dean, or Director.<\/li>\n<li>Other food or meal reimbursements typically do not require additional approvals beyond GFA approvals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reminder:&nbsp;<\/strong>Expense and reimbursement reporting of meal and food purchases requires:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clearly stated business purpose<\/li>\n<li>List of those in attendance for 10 or fewer individuals, or a description of the group and approximate number of participants if over 10 individuals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please circulate this information to the necessary people within your area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fbs.admin.utah.edu\/download\/fbs\/epr_sales_tax_meals.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Memo: Guideline for approvals necessary for Business Meal and Sales Tax Reimbursements<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ePR better allows us&nbsp;to monitor submissions related to: Reimbursement of Business Meals &#8211; see Policy 3-031 Reimbursement of Utah Sales Tax in situations where a more preferred procurement method should have been used by the employee &#8211; see Rule 3-010A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fbs.admin.utah.edu\/epayment-request\/news\/2017\/04\/21\/guideline-effective-may-1-approvals-necessary-for-sales-tax-and-business-meal-reimbursement\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,1],"tags":[8,7],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fbs.admin.utah.edu\/epayment-request\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fbs.admin.utah.edu\/epayment-request\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fbs.admin.utah.edu\/epayment-request\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fbs.admin.utah.edu\/epayment-request\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fbs.admin.utah.edu\/epayment-request\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fbs.admin.utah.edu\/epayment-request\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fbs.admin.utah.edu\/epayment-request\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fbs.admin.utah.edu\/epayment-request\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fbs.admin.utah.edu\/epayment-request\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}