CRA-compliant meal allowance automation
for long-haul trucking companies
Powered by your existing ELD data
Your drivers are entitled to $8,000–$12,000+ per year in CRA meal allowances — but most of it goes unclaimed. The reason isn't eligibility. It's paperwork. Manually calculating meal deductions from ELD logs requires cross-referencing hundreds of trips against CRA's IC73-21R9 rules, then filling out Form TL2 correctly. Almost nobody does it right. Most don't do it at all.
Export your Samsara (or other ELD) Hours of Service report. Email it to us — that's it.
Our system parses every trip, applies CRA's 4-hour meal interval and 160km/24hr long-haul rules.
You receive a 5-sheet Excel workbook: trip summary, audit detail, anomaly flags, daily reconciliation.
Hand the workbook to your CPA. Every deduction is traceable to the ELD log row that supports it.
Single driver · Full year 2025 · Alberta long-haul
| CRA Category | Trips | Meals | Deductible |
|---|---|---|---|
| Part 2A — Standard (50%) | 259 | 249 | $2,863.50 |
| Part 2B — Long-haul (80%) | 287 | 287 | $5,280.80 |
| Total deductible allowance | 536 | $8,144.30 | |
At a 40% marginal rate, this represents ~$3,258 in actual tax savings for one driver.
- Complete 5-sheet audit-ready Excel workbook per driver
- CRA-compliant: ITA s.67.1, IC73-21R9, T4044 2025
- Part 2A (50%) and Part 2B long-haul (80%) correctly separated
- Anomaly & boundary flags for CPA review
- Works with Samsara — other ELD providers on request
- Employer section (Part 3) guidance included
Authority
All calculations follow Information Circular IC73-21R9 and Guide T4044 (2025). The simplified method rate of $23/meal is applied with the correct meal interval (1 per 4 hrs, max 3/day). Long-haul trips meeting the ≥160 km and ≥24-hour continuous absence threshold are correctly classified at 80% under ITA s.67.1(1.1). Every deduction links back to the originating ELD log row — defensible at audit.