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Tax Year 2016: If I paid for a hotel for a business trip in 2016, but the trip is not until this year, when can I claim the expense?

 
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Tax Year 2016: If I paid for a hotel for a business trip in 2016, but the trip is not until this year, when can I claim the expense?

Assuming you are a Cash Basis business (most small businesses are), you will claim it in the year you paid it.  In your case, that is 2016.

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