Car and travel expenses

You can claim deductions for expenses you incurred while performing your job for the following:

  • D1 Work-related car expenses
  • D2 Work-related travel expenses
  • D4 Work-related self-education expenses

You may need:

  • Written evidence for your car expenses (receipts/invoices, diary entries)
  • Car logbook and odometer records

You can choose the method of entering car and travel expenses that gives you the largest deduction or is most convenient.

Follow the steps below to complete a car and travel expense claim:

  1. Description of the vehicle (make, model)
  2. Category of expense (optional)
  3. Evidence of calculation code is optional
  4. If Step 2/3, if you have selected O - Other, Details of other evidence code will need to be provided
  5. Set Expense relates to Motor Vehicle to YES or NO

           If NO is selected, add the Claim Amount.

           If YES is selected, you will need to enter the additional fields

                     a.       Cost price of car (no decimals)

         b.       Select the Claim Type (method)

                            i. Set Rate – if your claim is based on a set rate for each business kilometre.

                                Add the total number of business kilometres and the deductible amount is automatically calculated by the system. For Tax Year 2019, business kilometres will be multipled with 68 cents/km. You can claim a maximum of 5,000 business kilometres per car, per year.

              ii. Log book – if your claim is based on the percentage of the expenses for the car (not applicable to D4).

                                   §  Expenses including running costs such as rego, insurance, etc but not capital cost

                                   §  Depreciation – to add an asset and depreciation, please see Adding fixed assets

                                   §  Business use percentage as per log book

                                   §  Business % Claimed        

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