Has the firm had their wrists slapped by HM Revenue for poor record keeping?
Handing in your boarding pass has nothing to do with HMRC. It’s a load of old cobblers! The company has the receipt for the ticket so seems like they are just being difficult pure and simple.
Our employees regularly have to travel with work. We require receipts for their expenses yes, but equally we have to understand that occasionally things get lost, or often it’s just not possible to get a receipt from some things – particularly in the less developed countries.
Generally we issue a reasonable amount of petty cash to anyone who’s traveling and they mostly have company credit cards. Occasionally though if staff are in the situation where they have to spend their own money then we refund them as soon as they submit their claim. I don’t see any reason why our company should be using our own employees as an extra line of credit.
It’s all about trusting your employees at the end of the day. Sure if someone was taking the p**s then we’d have words but we find that generally if you treat staff fairly then the goodwill you get back more than makes up for it.