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FBT Q&A – Payment of employee visa costs
Is reimbursement of a visa application cost subject to FBT? Question We have recently employed a new staff member and...
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FBT year-end tips
Some readers will be working towards the FBT return COVID-19 lodgement deadline of 25 June 2020. A few FBT year...
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FBT – Hire Cars: When is a car benefit not a car benefit?
Providing an employee with a hire car raises the questions of whether a benefit is provided and if so how...
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FBT Q&A – Benefits to employees that have been stood down
Is a person whom an employer has stood down due COVID-19 an employee for FBT purposes during the period of...
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FBT – COVID-19 impact on certain FBT issues
Below, we provide answers to some questions arising where COVID-19 meets FBT. The unique times we find ourselves in will...
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FBT Q&A – How are private trips in a ‘workhorse vehicle’ treated where an employee is provided with accommodation by the employer on Monday to Friday but returns ‘home’ on the weekend?
Question How are private trips in a ‘workhorse vehicle’ treated where an employee is provided with accommodation by the employer...
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FBT – Application of kilometre limits in PCG 2018/3 in determining whether non-home to work private travel is minor, infrequent and irregular
How do the kilometre limits in PCG 2018/3 apply when determining whether non-home to work private travel is minor, infrequent...
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FBT – Government not to implement Productivity Commission’s recommendations on remote tax concessions
Attendees at TaxEd’s FBT seminars have been particularly interested in Productivity Commission’s findings and recommendations relating to the Zone Tax...
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FBT Q&A – Novated lease of an e-bike
Question We have recently had a number of staff enter into novated lease agreements for e-bikes. Given e-bikes are not...
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FBT Q&A – Payment of employee legal fees
Are an employee’s legal fees which are reimbursed pursuant to a negotiated settlement in relation to termination of employment subject...
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FBT – Car parking fringe benefits – ATO restatement of rules and expansion of the net
The ATO has released a draft ruling on car parking fringe benefits and a draft replacement chapter on car parking...
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FBT Q&A – Staff attendance at sponsorship dinners
Does FBT apply to a meal consumed and travel undertaken by staff who attend an event sponsored by their employer?...
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