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If you use your car for work you are entitled to claim the costs of using your car to do your job as a tax deduction. You can claim motor vehicle expenses for travel between: Your workplace and an alternative workplace (eg. a clients property, place of training etc.) An alternative workplace and another alternative workplace (eg. one client’s property to another) Two separate work places (eg. when you have a second job) To and from work when you hav...

  What does this mean for you? As part of the 2013-14 Budget the Government announced that it will gradually phase out the Net Medical Expenses Tax Offset (NMETO) with a "use it or lose it" system. This will mean if you do not claim the NMETO in your 2012-13 tax return, you will not be eligible for the offset in any future year. If you received the NMETO in your 2012-13 tax return, you will be eligible to receive the offset for all eligible out-of-pocket...

  The first annual Taxable Payments Report is due 28 July 2013 (or 21 July for those businesses who lodge monthly Business Activity Statements) for businesses primarily in the building and construction industry who have made payments to subcontractors during the year ending 30 June 2013. The Government has designed this report to improve compliance with tax obligations by those contractors who are currently not doing the right thing. However, the reporting obligation...