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By Julia Hartman
Fly In Fly Out Workers Salary Sacrificing Their Airfares Make sure your employer pays for your airfares direct, not reimburses you or the salary sacrifice is at best a waste of time, or at worse going to cost you more than if you just paid the airfares out of your after tax take home pay. …
Don’t Panic! The radio stations will soon start threatening doom and gloom if you don’t lodge your tax return by 31st October, 2019!!! Tax agents are provided with a lodgement program so they can lodge tax returns for most of the year and retain quality staff. It is not a matter of making …
Help your employees give the ATO a raspberry to their new draconian bully tactics on reasonable allowances. This blog is both for employers and for employees who have read our article on travel allowances https://bantacs.com.au/Jblog/reasonable-allowance-concessions-effectively-abolished-by-the-ato/#more-159 If you are the latter make sure you give your employer a copy of this, so they can do …
LAFHA – Living Away From Home Allowance This blog only applies to workers who are transferred to a temporary work location for a period of less than 12 months. It does not apply to your typical fly or drive in and out worker who has a permanent work site. LAFHAs are taxed as a fringe …