US Updates Foreign Per Diem Rates, Effective July 1, 2023

Foreign per diem rates for more than 150 locations, including Shanghai, Tokyo, and Toronto, were updated by the US State Department and take effect July 1.

Updates apply to cities and other locations in Albania, Bulgaria, Burundi, Canada, China, Colombia, the Cook Islands, Croatia, the Democractic Republic of the Congo, the Dominican Republic, Iceland, Japan, Kenya, Laos, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Niue, Norway, Russia, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sri Lanka, Sweden, and Zambia, the department said in its updated list of foreign per diem rates.

While the rates are the maximum tax-free reimbursement rates issued to US government employees traveling ...