Specialist Teachers Tax Return Dandenong Services
Providing excellent tax and accounting services to the Dandenong and surrounding areas, our team will work with you to improve your tax position and ensure that you get the best possible refund. Specialising in Teachers Tax Returns Dandenong, we can assist you with all tax matters within the Education Industry.
We have compiled a list of specific deductions, that as teacher you may be eligible to claim:
Car Expenses:
When can you claim? .
- Travelling between separate work places.
- Travelling to an alternate workplace.
- Work-related parking fees, tolls.
You can’t claim if:
- You’re travelling between your home and workplace.
- If you do minor work-related tasks on the way to or on your way home from work.
How can you claim?
- You can claim $0.63, $0.74 or $0.75 (depending on the size of your engine) per KM on the first 5000 work-related KMs per financial year (You may like to keep a diary of work-related travel).
- You can keep a log book for 3 months to determine what percentage of work-related car usage you incur, which then allows you to claim that percentage of your car expenses as a deduction.
Home Office Expenses:
What can you claim?
- Depreciation of home office equipment (computers etc).
- Work-related phone calls from home or mobile and internet
- Cost of energy (electricity and gas) that is incurred as a result of working from home.
- Cost of repair for any home office furniture and fittings.
You can’t claim:
- Occupancy expenses (rent or mortgage interest, council rates, and house insurance premiums).
What do you need to do?
- Receipts for depreciating assets.
- Itemised phone bills
- A diary to record the hours you work at home for a 4 week period.
How can you claim?
- You can figure out a percentage of use for work purposes using you diary records and claim that percentage off your bills (electricity, gas, phone & internet) and depreciation on assets.
- You might prefer working out how many hours you used your home office throughout the year using your diary records and claim $0.34 for each hour.
Clothing Expenses:
What can you claim?
- Compulsory uniforms.
- Non-compulsory uniforms can be claimed if that piece of clothing can be identified as a piece of clothing distinctive to your workplace (has the school logo).
- Protective clothing.
- Laundry and dry-cleaning
You can’t claim:
- Any type of clothing that can be deemed as general clothing (i.e. suits, dresses etc).
What do you need to do?
- Keep receipts of all purchases, laundry and dry-cleaning expenses, hire expenses and repairing expenses.
Other Expenses You Can Claim As A Deduction:
- Expenses incurred on excursions, school trips and camps.
- Cost of First Aid Training, If you’re the designated First Aid person.
- Cost of attending work-related seminars, conferences and training courses.
- Cost of sunglasses, sunhats and sunscreen if you’re a school sports teacher or coach.
- Cost of teaching aids.
- Cost of subscription to technical or professional journals, periodical and magazines that relate to teaching.
- Union and professional association fees.
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