Julia's Blog
By Julia Hartman
Download PDF If you are considering a secondment overseas please make sure you get the right advice first. This blog is motivated by reading some poor advice from an Australian company sending an employee to work in the UK for 2 years. Basically, the employer told the employee that they could not tax their UK …
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 …