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D – Debt waiver

Last updated 21 March 2017

If an employee is in debt to you and you release the employee from the obligation to repay the debt, the unpaid amount is a debt waiver fringe benefit. Show the amount of this kind of benefit at item D.

A debt owed by an employee that you write off as a genuine bad debt is not a debt waiver fringe benefit.

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Example 13: Taxable value of debt waiver fringe benefit

You waive a $500 debt (including principal and interest) that an employee owed you from a previous year.

You would write at item 23:

Example 13: Taxable value of debt waiver fringe benefit

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