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MINING SITE WORKERS EMPLOYEES
TAX DEDUCTIONS
FLY IN FLY OUT - FIFO
Expenses incurred to fly in fly out or drive in drive out to mining sites are
usually not a tax deduction. TR 2021/1
Some exceptions are:
Payne's case:
Is a recent High Court decision that has eliminated certain travelling
expenses. The taxpayer had two sources of income. He received a
salary for being a QANTAS pilot and he had a deer farm business at his
residence. Payne would work three days for QANTAS and four days on
his farm. He claimed travel between his farm and Mascot airport. The
High Court determined that travel between unrelated places of
employment or business is generally not deductible.
This is in contrast to the ATO Ruling TR 95/19 "A deduction is allowable
for the cost of travelling between two places of employment or between
a place of employment and a place of business."
Payne's case is an example of where the ATO has argued against its
own rulings. There seems to be an issue where one of the places
of employment / business is the home of the taxpayer.
You should apply for your own Private Ruling with reference to ATO
Ruling TR 95/19 Paras 148 to 153, TD 96/42, Taxation Ruling IT 2199
Paras 4 to 11, MT 2017 Paras 23 to 36, IT 112 Paras 13 to 17.
In Garrett's case the taxpayer lived at his residence where he conducted
both a medical practice and a farm. He also conducted medical practices
in other centres from which he derived significant amounts of income.
The Court found that travel between the various centres was part of the
operations by which the taxpayer produced his assessable income and
its cost was an allowable deduction.
TR 2017/D6 If you satisfy the above conditions you may be eligible to claim
overnight travel expenses e.g. meals, travel to and from the airport or mining
site by taxis or motor vehicle work kms using an appropriate method.
Ask the ATO for a private ruling.
2. Mobile mining workers employees
Mobile mining workers employees may satisfy the above conditions.
Mobile mining workers employees may change mining sites, towns or
international mining or training locations frequently (within 21 days).
These mobile mining workers employees may often be construction, drilling
or maintenance crews working on different projects in various locations
rotating through several towns.
They must satisfy the below 4 conditions.
If you start at home then fly to different locations for overnight work or
training which does not exceed 21 days then you may be eligible overnight
travel expenses.
This differs from tax cases where causal teachers travelling to
different schools in the same day and city were not allowed travel expenses
to and from work.
These overnight mobile mining workers employees circumstances are
more similar to overnight travelling sales representatives.
Ask the ATO for a private ruling.
3. Carrying bulky equipment with no secure lockup at work.
Bulkiness of equipment is determined by size & weight. For mining
worker employees it could mean a carrying minimum of a 40 kg tool box
plus other items e.g. nail guns, drills, drop saws, materials, etc. Bulkiness
also determined by size e.g. Ladders, bench horses, large oil drums,
spare tyres, etc.
A few mining workers employees will satisfy the above conditions on their
first and last trip to and from their mining site. It usually involves checking
in oversize luggage at the airport which is usually a hassle.
They may then claim travel to and from the airport or mining site by taxis or
motor vehicle work kms using an appropriate method.
Ask the ATO for a private ruling.
PLEASE SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING EXPENSES:
Air fares
Taxis or car hire
Accommodation
Meals
Water
Alcohol - e.g. wine & beer
Snacks
Toiletries
Reading materials - e.g. newspapers, magazines, books, etc.
Movies - e.g. DVDs, in-house, cinema, etc.
EMPLOYERS
Most employers usually pay for only accommodation and meals for their
employees but there are many other incidental expenses that are not
reimbursed, these are usually a tax deduction. e.g. alcohol, snacks,
toiletries, movies, etc.
WHEN ARE EMPLOYEE ALLOWED DEDUCTIONS FOR OVERNIGHT
TRAVEL EXPENSES TR 2021/1
From 1 July 2015 the zone tax offset is to exclude "fly in fly out" and "drive in drive out" workers where their normal residence is not within a "zone".
30 June 2020
SPECIAL ZONE A OR B - $1,173 + 50% of the rebates or notional rebates to which a taxpayer is entitled.
ORDINARY ZONE A - $338 + 50% of the rebates or notional rebates to which a taxpayer is entitled.
ORDINARY ZONE B - $57 + 20% of the rebates or notional rebates to which a taxpayer is entitled.
OVERSEAS DEFENCE FORCE REBATE - $338 + 50% of the rebates or notional rebates to which a taxpayer is entitled.
REBATES OR NOTIONAL REBATES
Dependants who are unable to work $2,535 x percentage of days maintained by only you and ATI < $10,422.
Sole Parent $1,607 x percentage of days maintained by only you.
Child or Student $376 + $282 after the 1st x percentage of days maintained by only you and ATI < $1,786
· To qualify for the zone tax offset, you must have lived or worked in a remote area (not necessarily continuously) for:
o 183 days or more during the current income year; or
o 183 days or more in total during the current and previous income years - but less than 183 days in the current year and less than 183 days in the previous income year - and you did not claim a zone tax offset in your previous year's tax return.
If you lived in a zone for less than 183 days in the current income year, you may still be able to claim a tax offset as long as you lived in a zone for a continuous period of less than five years and:
o you were unable to claim in the first year because you lived there less than 183 days; and
o the total of the days you lived there in the first year and in the current year is 183 or more.
Remote zones
Remote areas are classed as either zone A or zone B. There are also special areas within these zones.
ATO Zone List to find out towns Zone Category
End of find out more
Example
Gary lived in a remote area from 1 March 2008 to 30 September 2012 - a continuous period of less than five years. He couldn't claim a zone tax offset for the first year because he lived there for only 121 days. However, he could carry forward these unused days to 2012-13.
He now adds the number of days from 1 March 2008 to 30 June 2008 (121 days) and the number of days from 1 July 2012 to 30 September 2012 (91 days). As the total (212 days) is '183 or more days' over the two income years, Gary can claim the tax offset on his 2013 tax return.
· Zone or overseas forces tax offset calculator
You may be able to claim the tax offset if you have:
o lived or worked in a remote or isolated area of Australia, not including an offshore oil or gas rig (a remote area), or
o served overseas as a member of the Australian Defence Force (declared non-warlike service) or a United Nations armed force and the income relating to that service is not specifically exempt from tax.
If you qualify for both a zone tax offset and an overseas forces tax offset, you can claim only one of them. Claim the one that gives you the higher tax offset.
You may also be eligible to claim additional dependant tax offsets at this item for:
o your or your spouse's parent
o your or your spouse's invalid child, brother or sister
o your child-housekeeper
o your housekeeper.
Work related uniforms, protective clothing and laundry
Laundry
Laundry: You may claim $1 per load up to $150 without receipts or less or you may use a reasonable basis to calculate the amount for work related clothing (Hi Vis, PPE, logos, etc.)
Dry cleaning without receipts may fall under items that cost less than $10 up to $200. Sometimes if you use a regular dry cleaner they may be able to give you an annual tax receipts based on their records.
Protective clothing
Protective clothing are generally tax deductible if it is designed to protect:
Steel capped boots, high visibility shirts, fluro trousers, fire proof clothing, non-slip safety shoes, aprons, etc.
Conventional clothing
Conventional clothing is not deductible e.g. King Gee drill pants, jeans, etc unless they have a logo or a fluro strip sewn on for safety.
Strictly enforced uniforms
Strictly enforced uniforms are usually deductible as well as accessories such as stockings, footwear, socks and jumpers unless it is conventional clothing.
Non compulsory uniforms
Non compulsory uniforms are usually not tax deductible unless they are registered with AusIndustry or they have a logo.
TOOLS
Tools are usually 100% deductible except for the following:
For employees if a tool costs > $300 you must depreciate it usually at 20% per year. e.g. nail guns, drills, etc.
For ABN businesses the 'General Small Business Pool' may depreciate tools < $150,000 at 100% per year. From 1 July 2023 - $20,000.
You do not need receipts for up to $200 of items that cost less than $10. The $200 is the maximum for the whole tax return.
SUN PROTECTION AND SUN GLASSES
Includes sun glasses, sun screens and hats.
You do not need receipts for up to $200 of items that cost less than $10. The $200 is a total for the whole tax return. You must deduction cost of perscription lens.
TOLLS & PARKING
You do not need receipts for up to $200 of items that cost less than $10. The $200 is a total for the whole tax return.
LICENCES
The licence or renewal expense must relate to your current income producing activity not income that will be made in the future.
The initial cost of some licenses may not be a tax deduction. e.g. the initial cost of obtaining a truck, earth moving or heavy machinery license as the expense has occurred at a point too soon.
COURSES
Courses include fees (but not HECS), books, laptops, internet, stationery, home office expenses, some travel to a place of education.
You do not need receipts for up to $200 of items that cost less than $10. The $200 is a total for the whole tax return.
The course must relate to your current income producing activity, not income that will be made in the future. e.g. Medical School expenses are not a tax deduction for a doctors income in the future.
If your course is run by a university, TAFE or college you must reduce your expenses by the first $250.
SECURITY/CRIMINAL CHECKS ATO TR 98/6 PARA 177
Security checks are usually not deductible as the expense happens at a point too soon before the income is earned.
Renewal of criminal checks may be deductible as you are currently earning income e. g school teacher's blue cards.
The ATO allows the preparation of resumes and travel to attend an interview as a tax deduction against Centrelink income.
HOME OFFICE
This is usually claimed by mining workers employees who have to stay in contact with the mining company or staff whether at home or at the mining site.
Method 1
You may claim home office electricity based on floor area e.g. 5%. x $400 (electricity bill per quarter) x 4 = $80. This area must be for the sole purpose of home office. It cannot be for multi-use e.g. dining room table.
Furniture, desks, fax machines, filing cabinets, book shelves, pictures, carpets, blinds, etc may be depreciated at usually 20%.
Depreciable Items < $300 may be 100% depreciated.
E.g. desk $250 x 100%, chair $120 x 100%, carpet $1,000 x 20%, blinds $600 x 20% = $690
Method 2
You may use the ATO 67c per hour rate to claim electricity, gas, phone. You must keep a 4 week diary. You may claim depreciation in addition to the set rate.
E.g. 67c x 20 hours per week x 52 weeks = $696.80
Plus depreciation laptop $1,000 x 67% = $670.00
Total $1,366.80
WORK EXPENSES
iPhone, mobiles & home phone
Computers - iPad, Macs, laptops & desktops
Computer supplies
Stationery - Cartridges, diaries, pens & office sundry
Internet
Self education, conferences and courses.
PRIVATE USE APPORTIONMENT
If there is private use (other than incidental use) a 28 day diary is required once every 5 years or where the work % changes by more than 10%.
A diary can be a simple A4 pad with a line in the middle with work & private on opposite sides.
RECORDS
You may claim $200 worth of items costing < $10 without receipts
EMPLOYER FRINGE BENEFITS TAX
Fringe Benefits Tax is paid by the employer for non-cash benefits which are not exempt.
The Fringe Benefit Tax Period is 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025.
LIVING AWAY FROM HOME ALLOWANCE (LAFHA)
These are non-cash fringe benefit reimbursements received for accommodation, food and drinks by fly in fly out or drive in drive out employees and their families and are usually subject to Fringe Benefits Tax and paid by the employer and is part of your salary package.
However there are some exceptions if you satisfy all of the ATO conditions.
You must live away from your usual place of residence.
You must be required to live away from home.
You must have maintained a home in Australia at which you usually reside and is available for your immediate use and enjoyment during that period that your duties of employment require you to live away from home. It must be reasonable to expect that the employee will resume living at that place when the period ends.
The Fringe benefit relates only to all or part of the first 12 months that the duties of that employment require the employee to live away from thr employee's usual place of residence. However, the 12 month rule can be paused by the employer.
You can substantiate all expenses incurred on accommodation.
You can substantiate all expenses incurred on food or drink unless you are using the ATO rates.
You provide a declaration about living away from home and, where required, a declaration on substantiation to your employer.
The payment must be for a LAFHA as per your Enterprise Bargaining Agreement definitions.
If you satisfy these ATO conditions you must satisfy ATO substantiation record keeping requirements.
For accommodation, food and drink requirements you must keep of receipts for 12 months from 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020.
There are some exceptions where you may use the ATO Food and Drink Rates but you still must show a regular pattern of expenditure for at least 28 days. Try and keep all your receipts for the full 12 months. Use your mobile to take photos of these records and email them to your laptop, iPad, computer, etc.
EMPLOYER EXEMPT FRINGE BENEFITS DECLARATIONS
E.G.
Your employer pays you $590 per week for LAFHA for accommodation, food and drinks for you and your family.
You have been asked to sign an Exempt Fringe Benefits Declartion stating that you have incurred accommodation, food and drinks expenses of at least $590 per week from 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021 and that you have kept all receipts or at least proof of a 28 days regular pattern of expenditure for food and drinks using the ATO rates to reduce substantiation requirements for food and drink receipts and diaries from 12 months to 1 month.
Your accommodation expense per week is $300 which you must have 12 months of receipts so your food receipts must be at least $290 per week to be fully exempt under the Fringe Benefits Act.
If you do not make $590 pay the difference back to the employer as salary packaging with contributions so as to avoid your employer having to pay 49% FBT on the difference.
Record keeping is tricky as the methods used must be crystal clear to the ATO. McDonalds, KFC and other cafes & restaurants date, descriptions and amounts on credit card statements for food and drinks may be acceptable but purchases from Coles, Woolsworths, Foodland, IGA, etc. will not be acceptable without an itemized receipt.
If you satisfy all these requirement then you may sign your employer's LAFHA Exempt Fringe Benefits Declaration. ATO Reasonable
ATO Fringe benefits tax: reasonable amounts for food and drinks incurred
by employees receiving a living-away-from-home-allowance fringe benefit.
One Adult $241
Two Adults $362
Three Adults $483
One Adult and one child $302
Two Adults and one child $423
Two Adults and two children $484
Two Adults and three children $545
Three Adults and one child $544
Three Adults and two children $605
Four Adults $604
$121 for each additional adult
$61 for each additional child
An adult is a person who has turned 12 before 1 April 2023 child 4
ATO INTERPRETIVE DECISION 2001/120
Fringe Benefits Tax - Otherwise Deductible Rule
Fringe benefits tax 'otherwise deductible' ruleFOI status: may be released
Status of this decision: Decision Current
This ATO ID provides you with the following level of protection:
If you reasonably apply this decision in good faith to your own circumstances (which are not materially different from those described in the decision), and the decision is later found to be incorrect you will not be liable to pay any penalty or interest. However, you will be required to pay any underpaid tax (or repay any over-claimed credit, grant or benefit), provided the time limits under the law allow it. If you do intend to apply this decision to your own circumstances, you will need to ensure that the relevant provisions referred to in the decision have not been amended or repealed. You may wish to obtain further advice from the Tax Office or from a professional adviser.
Issue
Whether the 'otherwise deductible' rule (ODR) contained in sections 37 and 52 of the Fringe Benefits Tax Assessment Act 1986 (FBTAA) applies to reduce to nil the taxable value of the following fringe benefits provided by the employer to certain employees working at remote work sites:
- (1)
- residual (accommodation) fringe benefits; and
- (2)
- certain board (meal) fringe benefits.
Decision
1. There is no fringe benefits tax (FBT) liability in respect of the provision of accommodation, as the benefit is, depending on whether the employee is travelling in the course of performing the duties of that employment, either specifically made an exempt benefit under subsection 47(5) of the FBTAA or the taxable value of the benefit may be reduced to nil under the ODR in section 52 of the FBTAA.
2. In respect of the provision of meals to the employees, the taxable value of the board benefit is reduced to nil under the ODR in section 37 of the FBTAA.
Facts
1. During the FBT years the employer conducted operations at various remote locations throughout Australia. Activities at these locations included open cut mining, site preparation, civil earthworks projects, road construction and maintenance, ore cartage and plant hire.
2. Many of these locations were a substantial distance from cities and townships where employees, if they so chose, could have been accommodated and could have commuted to work daily.
3. Employees working at these remote locations therefore necessarily had to be provided with accommodation at or near these sites until the projects they were working on were completed or until their contracts of employment with the employer otherwise concluded.
4. The usual practice for the employer was to arrange transport to and from the nearest capital city to the remote work site.
5. Employees working at remote locations were entitled to be provided with three meals on each day while at the site.
6. The employees provided the employer with a Usual Place of Residence declaration stating that during the period they worked at a remote work site they also maintained a usual place of residence.
The relevant conditions of employment include:
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- they are required to live away from their usual place of residence at various remote locations in the course of their employment;
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- they are required to live at or near actual remote work sites;
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- the taxpayer provides meals and accommodation at or near these remote work sites until the respective projects on which they are contracted to work, which may have a life of several years, are completed;
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- they do not make a contribution towards the cost of their meals or accommodation;
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- because of the remoteness of the sites and the conditions of their employment, the employees cannot choose accommodation or meals other than what is provided by the employer;
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- they are neither able to bring their families to live with them at the camp sites nor, generally, to have visitors;
- •
- they work rosters, often comprising 12 hour shifts on 13 successive days followed by 1 day off, of 7 or 14 weeks at the site followed by a week off;
Reasons For Decision
1. In relation to employees who work at remote construction sites, paragraph 2 of Taxation Determination TD 96/7 provides that the provision of accommodation at the remote work site will not give rise to an FBT liability where the accommodation is not the usual place of residence of the relevant employees. Depending on whether the employee is travelling in the course of their employment, either the taxable value of the benefit is reduced to nil under the 'otherwise deductible' rule in section 52 of the FBTAA or the benefit is specifically exempted by subsection 47(5) of the FBTAA.
Section 31E of the FBTAA provides for employees who work on a fly-in-fly-out or drive-in-drive-out basis, allowing concessions to not be limited to 12 months as per section 31D of the FBTAA, if an employee lived away from his or her usual place of residence on or after 1 October 2012.
In this case, the employer has satisfied the Commissioner that the accommodation provided at the remote work site is not the usual place of residence of the relevant employees and the employees work on a fly-in-fly-out or drive-in-drive-out basis, so therefore the changes in section 31D do not apply.
2. The meals provided to the employees are board fringe benefits that have a taxable value of $2.00 each under paragraph 36(a) of the FBTAA. The 'otherwise deductible' rule in section 37 of the FBTAA may apply to reduce the taxable value of the board fringe benefit to nil depending on the particular facts of the case.
Accordingly, it is necessary to establish that the relevant employees would have been entitled to a deduction under section 8-1 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 (ITAA 1997) (former subsection 51(1) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 (ITAA 1936)) had they incurred and paid un-reimbursed expenditure on the meals.
The decision of Hill J in Roads and Traffic Authority of NSW v. FC of T (1993) 43 FCR 223 considered the circumstances in which various allowances paid to road construction and repair crews, who were required to camp away from home, could be considered to be paid to compensate for outgoings, which if incurred by the employee would have been deductible expenses. In the process of determining that the hypothetical expenditure on meals by the employees would have been deductible expenses according to the definition in subsection 136(1) of the FBTAA, that is they would have been deductible in terms of subsection 51(1) of the ITAA 1936, Hill J set down a general rule by which deductibility of such expenditure is to be determined (at 240):
'Where a taxpayer is required by his employer, and for the purposes of his employer, to reside, for periods of time, away from home and at the work site, and that employee incurs expenditure for the cost of sustenance, or indeed other necessary expenditure which, if the taxpayer had been living at home, would clearly be private expenditure, the circumstance in which the expenditure is incurred, that is to say, the occasion of the outgoing operates to stamp that outgoing as having a business or employment related character.'
His Honour (at 240) noted the following features of the RTA employees' working conditions that supported claims for deductibility of expenditure on sustenance and other necessary items:
'...they are required, as an incident of their employment, by their employer and for the purposes of their employer to live close by their work site for relatively short periods of time. No question arises of their choosing to live in these places. Each of the persons in question has a permanent house in which he lives when not in camp. None of the employees spend inordinate periods of time in the camps so that the camp becomes their home. Their house is retained and the employees in question travel home at weekends. They do not remain in the camps.'
However, Hill J did observe that where an employee has no private home and is employed indefinitely to work at a particular site, then that employee might be said to have chosen to live at the site so that the cost of the employee's accommodation there would be private.
The question of whether an employee has chosen to live at the site is one of fact and degree. In the present case, having regard to the relevant facts including:
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- remoteness of the sites;
- •
- living conditions at these sites;
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- a general requirement for employees to leave the sites whilst not on duty;
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- an inability to have family or friends visit the site;
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- working conditions involving 12 hour shifts for 7 days a week;
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- fixed period contracts of employment; and
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- the limited life of most mining sites,
it could not be said that the employees had chosen the accommodation provided by the employer at or near the mine site to be their home, such that their usual place of residence had ceased to be their home.
Accordingly, it is possible to conclude on the facts of the case that an income tax deduction would have been allowable to the recipient of the board fringe benefit if the recipient had incurred unreimbursed expenditure in respect of the acquisition of the benefit. On this basis, the ODR in section 37 of the FBTAA will apply and the taxable value of the board fringe benefits is reduced to nil."
Bechtel Employees at Curtis Island ATO Facts Sheet
You need to review your work-related expense claims in your 2015 and 2014 tax returns. The ATO is focussing attention on work-related expense claims so make sure you only claim expenses you are entitled to. This fact sheet guides you on what deductions you can and cannot claim. Read this material carefully to ensure your claims are correct, even if a tax agent prepared and lodged your tax return. You should correct any mistakes by 31 October 2015.
Claiming deductions:
Receiving an allowance does not automatically entitle you
to a deduction. To be entitled to a deduction:
■■ you must have actually spent the money and not have been
reimbursed, and
■■ the costs must relate to doing your job and must not be private
expenses (such as travel from home to work), and
■■ in most cases, you must have records to prove your claims.
Bechtel pays some employees a tool allowance which is shown on their payment summary. All tools are provided by Bechtel on Curtis Island, so most employees cannot claim a deduction for tools, including any purchased with the allowance. In rare cases where you use your own tools in performing your
duties, you can claim a deduction. The ATO may confirm with your employer that you use your own tools.
Bechtel pays a ferry allowance to employees for the inconvenience of travelling to and from Curtis Island on the ferry. Employees also receive a travel allowance to cover travel to and from the project site. These allowances are income and are included on your payment summary. Bechtel pays the cost of the ferry and travel from the ferry terminal to the project site on Curtis Island. Employees cannot claim a deduction for these transport costs.
Bechtel pays all transport costs for fly-in fly-out (FIFO)
employees. This includes airfares and transport to and from the
ferry terminal. FIFO employees cannot claim a deduction for these
transport costs. For FIFO employees, travel costs between their home
and their local airport is a private expense and cannot be claimed
as a deduction. Similarly, local (non-FIFO) employees cannot claim a
deduction for the cost of travelling between home and the ferry
terminal as this is a private expense.
You can only claim deductions for the cost of meals if you work overtime or travel to perform work duties that require you to sleep away from home overnight. Meals eaten during regular working hours are a private expense and you cannot claim a deduction for these costs. Bechtel provides all meals to FIFO employees. Therefore, FIFO employees do not pay for any meals and cannot claim deductions.
Bechtel pays some local (non-FIFO) employees at Curtis Island a meal allowance if they work two or more hours of overtime. This allowance is included on your payment summary. You can claim a deduction for overtime meals for the amount you spent on meals on those breaks. This may include the cost of food you prepared yourself to eat during overtime.
Local (non-FIFO) employees do not travel to perform work duties that require them to sleep away from home overnight and cannot claim a deduction for meal expenses, even if paid a travel allowance.
Bechtel provide communication devices to employees to use during working hours and there is no requirement for employees to use their personal mobile. Unless you can demonstrate a need to use your personal mobile phone in performing your duties you cannot claim a deduction for any mobile phone expenses. The ATO may confirm with your employer that you use your phone for work purposes.
Bechtel provides employees who are required to stay at construction camps on Curtis Island with an ‘island living allowance’. This allowance is included on their payment summary. Bechtel covers all accommodation costs for employees who are required to stay on the island and so employees receiving this allowance cannot claim any accommodation costs. Similarly, employees who stay at construction camps on the mainland do not pay for their accommodation and cannot claim a deduction for these costs.
Bechtel provides employees with a ‘productivity allowance’ for employees’ commitment to achieve optimum productivity, continuous work, complying with timekeeping requirements and performing duties. This allowance is included on the payment summary. As the allowance is not paid to cover any out of pocket expenses, no deductions can be claimed by employees for this allowance.
Bechtel pay for all training courses and related expenses that are a requirement of your employment on Curtis Island. You cannot claim a deduction for the costs paid for or reimbursed by your employer.
Review your work-related expense claims for your 2015 and 2014 tax returns.
If you have incorrectly claimed a work-related expense, complete the form Request for amendment of work-related expenses provided with this fact sheet. Additional copies can be obtained from ato.gov.au/amendwre. Alternatively, you can get a registered tax agent to request an amendment for you. If you voluntarily request an amendment by 31 October 2015, the ATO will not impose a penalty. If you have made mistakes and you do not request an amendment, the ATO may apply a penalty if it reviews your return after this date. If you have not yet lodged your 2015 return, make sure you only claim deductions you are entitled to when you lodge it.
What if I need more information?
For general information about deductions, visit
ato.gov.au/deductions.
If you wish to discuss your circumstances, call the ATO on 13 28 61
Fact sheet for Bechtel employees at Curtis Island
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