An employee works alternating weeks at an employer establishment located in the city where the employee resides and at a second establishment located in a city approximately 300 km from the first establishment. In order to compensate the employee for the additional costs incurred in travelling to the distant location, the employee will be reimbursed, upon presentation of supporting documents, for reasonable accommodation and meal expenses and will be paid an allowance at a reasonable per-kilometre rate for the use of the employee's personal vehicle. CRA stated:
[I]f the employer determines that [the two establishments] are "regular places of employment" of the employee, the travel expenses incurred by the employee to travel between the individual's residence and these locations are personal expenses of the employee. Amounts paid to the employee for such travel must therefore be included in computing the employee's income … [and] the employee cannot deduct personal travel expenses in computing income from an office or employment.