What are your most creative ways to maximize benefits of expenses without being unethical/fraudulent?

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By not thinking of expenses this way.

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A1, no such thing as free money. If you don’t think starving yourself to get a dividend is costing you something, you need to work on self-worth

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NICE TRY, HR

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Outside of save your per diem... nothing else seems ethical

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The only thing that seems ethical is to spend as little as I can on meals then save the per dime since it’s a set $ amount per day. Then I use that money to invest in dividends so I’m making money off of free money

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@M1 I’m far from starving myself! But thanks for caring and for the assumption that I don’t value my self-worth.

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Please elaborate OP

I think I understand what OP means - are there some things that are allowable on a firm by firm basis? For example, mine allows you to expense a credit card with an airline club membership

$20/day gym perk is nice! I use it on a monthly Classpass membership that I wouldn’t normally buy

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