Employee Travel Expenses – Latest Developments including Accommodation and Meal Claims
Overview
A comprehensive guide to the rules for claiming deductions for employee travel including accommodation and meal claims
Employee travel is one of the most frequently audited claims by the ATO. Not only are the rules complex, this area is rife with misunderstandings by both clients and tax practitioners.
This session will offer a practical, example-driven overview of how the rules for employee travel deductions work and how ATO rules will apply to real life client situations
The webinar will include the following topics:
- An overview of the general principles
- An overview of TR 2021/1
- Interaction with TR 2021/4 (meal and accommodation claims)
- Home to work travel – what is it and when is it claimable?
- Working in two locations
- Special demands travel
- Working away from home
- On-call and stand-by arrangements
- Relocation
- Fly-in fly out employees
- Bulky tools exemption
- Dealing with ATO audits
Learning Outcomes:
Participants will gain a better understanding of how the rules and guidelines apply, both in theory and when applied to common client situations. As well as ensuring that the right amounts are claimed in tax returns, participants will be armed with the knowledge to advise clients or employees correctly in the first place, reducing the risk of ATO compliance action.
Suited to:
Tax Agents and accountants who act for individual clients with possible travel claims. In addition, employers, payroll staff and HR professionals who manage travel claims for employees.
This On Demand recording Includes:
- Recording of the Live Webinar, which can be viewed multiple times, for as long as required
- Presenters contact details for follow up questions
- CPD Quiz
- CPD Certificate
- CPD Report – Logged automatically
- PowerPoint Presentation
- Verbatim Transcript, with Searchability
- Supporting Documentation
Course syllabus
3 lessons
- Video – Employee Travel Expenses – Latest Developments including Accommodation and Meal ClaimsVideo
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- Knowledge QuizTest
Your presenter
Mark ChapmanH&R Block
is the author of Life and Taxes: A Look At Life Through Tax and has edited and updated the second, through to the seventh, editions of Australian Practical Tax Examples, published between 2019 and 2024 by Wolters Kluwer CCH Australia.
He has over 25 years experience as a tax professional in both the UK and Australia, specialising in tax for small business and individuals. He is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, a fellow of CPA Australia and a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation. He holds a Masters of Taxation Law with the University of New South Wales.
Since 2015, Mark has been Director of Tax Communications with H&R Block Australia. He writes regularly on tax issues for numerous media outlets and presents on topical tax topics at seminars and other events. He broadcasts frequently on radio and television and writes a regular column for Money Magazine and Yahoo7 Finance. As a tax practitioner in the UK, he occupied a number of senior positions before moving to Australia in 2007 to join the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) as a senior director.