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By Julia Hartman
Download PDF This blog is intended to help truck drivers keep the records they need during the year to maximise their tax refund. Obviously keeping receipts for everything is the way to go but paper receipts do present problems with fading and storage. This can be avoided by using the ATO app and …
Download PDF – Updated 19th May 2023 Year End Check List HECS: This is top of the list because you need to act before 1st June 2023. Each year your HECS debt and other student loans is indexed for inflation on the 1st June. This year the indexing is expected to be around 7%. …
Download PDF Despite objections from the Tax Agent community, the ATO have introduced new rules to make it damn near impossible and probably uneconomical to claim home office expenses on the cents per hour basis. The first hurdle is you must start a diary now! From 1st March 2023 every hour all year must …
Download PDF Tax Treatment of Electric Vehicles There has been a lot of talk about the FBT concessions associated with electric cars, this blog explains the latest on that from an employee and an employer’s point of view. Let’s start with an area that does not seem to be getting any publicity, deductions for …
Download PDF – Updated 23 08 2022 You cannot claim a tax deduction for a car you have salary sacrificed even though you make an after tax contribution. This is because even with a novated lease the car is considered held by your employer, so it is not yours to claim. If you are not …