Other travel expenses

Other travel expenses you have incurred as an employee that you may be able to claim as a deduction include:

👉 expenses you incurred for meals, accommodation and incidentals when travelling away overnight for work, such as going to an interstate work conference (generally, you can't claim for meals if your travel did not involve an overnight stay)

👉 the costs you incur for driving your car (such as fuel, oil, repairs and maintenance costs) when using someone else's car or other vehicle that is not defined as a car for work purposes

👉 air, bus, train, tram and taxi fares

👉 bridge and road tolls

👉 car parking and car-hire fees.

Vehicles other than cars are motorcycles, scooters, vehicles with greater than one tonne carrying capacity such as utes, trucks, heavy vehicles or a van with capacity for nine or more passengers.

You can't claim

👉 the purchase of other vehicles, but you can claim the decline in value of the vehicle over its effective life

👉 a deduction for

⮞ any fines you receive, such as speeding or parking infringements

⮞ normal daily trips between home and work – this is private travel.

You have to reduce your claim to exclude any private portion of your trip.