Yes, if your per diem payments were reported to you on Form 1099, you will include this income on your tax return.
To offset this income, you may report your actual expenses as Job-Related itemized deductions. However, to deduct employee business expenses, your total miscellaneous deductions must be more than 2% of your Adjusted Gross Income. And you must have more itemized deductions (ie: medical, mortgage interest, property taxes, charitable giving, etc.) than the Standard Deduction. (TurboTax calculates this for you, based on your entries.)
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To report the income, search on "1099-MISC" and for your expenses, search on "2106" (the form number).
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