This article seems to differ with this "solution." Employees have reimbursable expenses, but so do companies. The client of your company should treat your expenses as their expenses, for tax purposes, and your company should not. These seems to specifically apply to meals, where what you spend and what you can deduct differ. The client should claim 50% of your reimbursed meals as expenses to them, but you should received 100% of the reimbursement and NOT have that count as taxable income.

https://bizfluent.com/info-11399744-reimbursable-expenses-vs-taxable-income.html

Now the question is, how do you accurately show that in Quickbooks. And in my particular situation, if my employee paid for that expense out of their own pocket, then how do I subsequently pass that on to THEM as a reimbursement.