Originally Posted by
Joe le Taxi
In the small print of one of the FRE annexes, it says if you receive any tax free expenses, (per diems are tax free expenses) then they should be deducted from the full allowance. It is very clear you can't have all of both. Anyone who does claim both might well destroy the concession for all of us
Not quite, what it says is that if you receive expenses for those - specific and clearly stated - items which the FRE is intended to cover and it explicitly states that those are not travel expenses (per diems), then those expenses should be deducted from your FRE.
The FRE has absolutely nothing to do with per diems at all and so you can relax that you won’t be losing your tax free allowance.