meals-deduction

meals-deduction is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Receiptor-AI/bookkeeping-skills. It costs 93 tokens per session (2,169 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Tax rules for deciding which business meals and entertainment costs can be deducted, and what records to keep.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when checking a business lunch, client dinner, travel meal, office snack, team event, or entertainment expense before recording it for tax purposes.
Why use it?
It helps avoid claiming the wrong percentage or missing required details such as who attended, where you met, and why the meeting was business-related.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it when checking a business lunch, client dinner, travel meal, office snack, team event, or entertainment expense before recording it for tax purposes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/receiptor-ai/bookkeeping-skills/meals-deduction
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Receiptor-AI/bookkeeping-skills --skill meals-deduction
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Receiptor-AI/bookkeeping-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 93 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,169 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00093 $0.02169
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.01085
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00434
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00217

Measured 11d ago against content hash 26209b8498aa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

meals-deduction scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/meals-deduction/SKILL.md · 159 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 159 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Business Meals Deduction

Rules and documentation requirements for deducting business meals. This is one of the most audit-prone deduction categories because the rules are specific and the documentation requirements are strict.

Current rules at a glance

Meal type Deductible % Notes
Business meal with client/prospect/associate 50% Must discuss business, must document
Meals while traveling overnight for business 50% Must be away from tax home
Employee meals for convenience of employer (on-premises) 0% (starting 2026) Was 100% in 2021–22, 50% in 2023–25
Office snacks and coffee for employees 50% De minimis fringe benefit
Team meals (holiday party, all-hands) 100% Must be for all employees, occasional
Entertainment (sporting events, concerts, golf) 0% Not deductible since TCJA 2018
Meals during entertainment 50% Only if invoiced separately from entertainment
Business meal with no business discussion 0% Eating alone at a restaurant is not deductible

The 50% rule in detail

You deduct the full meal cost in your books, but only 50% is allowable on your tax return. This means:

In your accounting records: Record the full $120 dinner as a meal expense. On Schedule C Line 24b: Report $60 (half the total).

Your bookkeeping should track total meal expenses at full value. The 50% reduction happens on the tax return, not in the books.

Five required documentation elements

The IRS requires all five of these for every business meal. Missing even one can disallow the entire deduction:

1. Amount

The total cost including tax and tip. The tip IS part of the deductible expense (at 50%). If you paid $100 + $8 tax + $20 tip = $128, the deductible portion is $64.

2. Date

The specific date of the meal. "Sometime in March" is not sufficient.

3. Place

The name and location of the restaurant or establishment. "Italian restaurant downtown" is weak. "Osteria Mozza, 6602 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles" is strong.

Read the full file on GitHub · 159 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 159 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A 26209b8498aa

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meals-deduction is a skill published in the GitHub repository Receiptor-AI/bookkeeping-skills (4 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 2,169 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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