Disbursement category code descriptions
The list of disbursement category codes contains the following information:
| Disbursment category code | Code description |
Disbursement category codes for non-presidential filers |
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| 001 | Administrative/salary/overhead expenses (e.g., rent, staff salaries, postage, office supplies, equipment, furniture, ballot access fees, petition drives, party fees and legal and accounting expenses) |
| 002 | Travel expenses - including travel reimbursement expenses (e.g., costs of commercial carrier tickets; reimbursements for use of private vehicles, advance payments for use of corporate aircraft; lodging and meal expenses incurred during travel) |
| 003 | Solicitation and fundraising expenses (e.g., costs for direct mail solicitations and fundraising events including printing, mailing lists, consultant fees, call lists, invitations, catering costs and room rental) |
| 004 | Advertising expenses -including general public political advertising (e.g., purchases of radio/television broadcast/cable time, print advertisements and related production costs) |
| 005 | Polling expenses |
| 006 | Campaign materials (e.g., buttons, bumper stickers, brochures, mass mailings, pens, posters, balloons) |
| 007 | Campaign event expenses (e.g., costs associated with candidate appearances, campaign rallies, town meetings, phone banks, including catering costs, door to door get-out-the-vote efforts and driving voters to the polls) |
| 008 | Transfers (e.g., to other authorized committees of the same candidate) |
| 009 | Loan repayments (e.g., repayments of loans made/guaranteed by the candidate or other person) |
| 010 | Refunds of contributions (e.g., contribution refunds to individuals/ persons, political party committees or other political committees) |
| 011 | Political contributions (e.g., contributions to other federal candidates and committees, donations to nonfederal candidates and committees) |
| 012 | Donations (e.g., donations to charitable or civic organizations |
Disbursement category codes for presidential filers |
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| 101 | Expenses that are not allocable |
| 102 | Media expenditures |
| 103 | Expenditures for mass mailings and other campaign materials (e.g., buttons, bumper stickers, brochures, mass mailings, pens, posters, balloons) |
| 104 | Overhead expenditures of state offices and their facilities (e.g., rent, staff salaries, postage, office supplies, equipment, furniture, ballot access fees, petition drives, party fees and legal and accounting expenses) |
| 105 | Expenditures for special telephone programs |
| 106 | Public opinion poll expenditures |
| 107 | Fundraising expenditures (e.g., costs for direct mail solicitations & fundraising events including printing, mailing lists, consultant fees, call lists, invitations, catering costs and room rental) |