Work Related Travel Expenses

Common travel expenses programs you may be able to claim include air, bus, train & taxi fares. If you use a road vehicle designed to carry a load of one tone or more, or nine or more passengers, use a motor cycles, incur bridge/road tolls, parking, car hire fees, meal expenses or accommodation expenses whilst away overnight for work then you have incurred travel expenses.

You cannot claim a deduction for costs associated with travel to and from work however if the travel is from one job directly to a second job you can claim a deduction for costs incurred for that leg of the travel. Travel from the second job to home is not deductible.

You can claim a deduction for costs incurred travelling from your usual place of work to another location for the same employer, for example to a clients premises while still on duty then back to your usual work place or directly home. In this case you can claim the cost of travel to another work location and the cost of returning to your usual workplace or the cost of going straight home. Generally parking fees and tolls can only be claimed where there is also a deduction available for the travelling expense, there are a few exceptions to this rule.

The treatment of overnight travel for work is varied depending on an individual's circumstances.For an employee, this is where they undertake the travel for an activity which is directly related to their income earning activities as an employee. For a business person the expense must have been necessarily incurred for the purpose of producing accessable income.