I joined a new company and in my first month they sent me to their HQ in Paris for 4 days. They paid for my hotel and train (I’m USA based) and said I could expense up to €100 a day for food.
I did and on total I spend about €350 and put in a claim. I just printed out a bank statement as proof.
However, the company has rejected this saying they need an itemised receipt because they couldn’t claim back the VAT otherwise. Also they said that because it wasn’t itemised, they couldn’t know which exact vendors I used and also what exactly I bought – apparently they can’t reimburse for things like alcohol.
When I said that nobody had told me this they said the guidelines were there on the company handbook and also we were emailed a guideline – but there were three attachments in the email and there was a lot of info so I must have missed it.
Anything I can do to get the money back? Honestly I’m fuming and it’s a bit of a joke how companies can just hang on to my money like this? Like why does matter what the money was spent on? If they say I can spend 100 a day and I spend less than that who cares?