Originally Posted by
hockeypilot44
Per diem is not income. The only people who consider it income are those that are paid near the poverty line and embarrased about how little they make. That would be you. You add per diem to your salary so it looks a little more respectable. I am not bashing you. I am bashing your emoyer for paying you so little. Stop defending your low income.
I'm not defending anything. We are fighting here for what we deserve. I am simply stating that I have had to claim per diem as taxable before, and by definition it is income. However, most airlines, mine AND yours included pay so little per diem that it almost always falls below minimum daily allowed in most areas of the country. I was a truck driver in my previous life so I have been dealing with per diem for 20 years and my accountant, bank, and I have always treated it as income. This has nothing to do with the fact that our pay scale sucks. Id still treat per diem as income even if I made 100k before it.
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