Worksheet 2: Working out your sole and joint deductions

Worksheet 2 will help you to complete F, G and H item A3 by separating out deductions from joint income and identifying business deductions.

Step 1 Complete column (b) in worksheet 2 by transferring the appropriate amount from your 2015 tax return for the items listed in column (a).

Step 2 For each amount in column (b), write the amounts in columns (c), (d), (e) or (f).

Apportion each amount in column (b) into columns (c), (d), (e) and (f) depending on the source of the income to which the deduction applies. If the deduction relates to income that came from:

a trust, show the amount in column (c)
you individually, show the amount in column (c) or (d) as appropriate
a partnership, show the amount in Worksheet 4
a joint income group, show the amount in column (e) or (f) as appropriate.

If you have more than three joint income groups, duplicate columns (e) and (f) on a separate sheet of paper.

Worksheet 2: Working out your sole and joint deductions
		SHADED	From (b) work out how much of that deduction relates to solely earned and jointly earned income across these columns.		Income group 1		Income group 2		Income group 3
(a)		(b)	(c)	(d)	(e)	(f)	(e)	(f)	(e)	(f)
Deductions shown at the following labels:		Deductions shown on your tax return	Deductions from solely earned		Deductions from jointly earned		Deductions from jointly earned		Deductions from jointly earned
Deductions shown at the following labels:		Deductions shown on your tax return	Non-business income	Business income	Non-business income	Business income	Non-business income	Business income	Non-business income	Business income
1.	Low value pool deduction (from K item D6)					SHADED		SHADED		SHADED
2.	Interest deductions eg bank fees (from I item D7)					SHADED		SHADED		SHADED
3.	Dividend deductions (from H item D8)			SHADED		SHADED		SHADED		SHADED
4.	Cost of managing tax affairs (from M item D10)
5.	Other deductions relating to distribution (amount from X and Y item 13that relates to share of net income from trusts only)			SHADED		SHADED		SHADED		SHADED
6.	Farm management deductible deposits (from D item 17)					SHADED	SHADED	SHADED	SHADED	SHADED
7.	Foreign source income deductions (you included when calculating the amount shown at T, L, D, R, and M item 20)					SHADED		SHADED		SHADED
8.	Rent (from Q, F and U item 21)			SHADED		SHADED		SHADED		SHADED
9.	Forestry managed investment scheme deductions (from F item D14)
10.	Other deductions (from J item D15)
11.	Personal services income deductions (from K and L item P1)				SHADED	SHADED	SHADED	SHADED	SHADED	SHADED
Total deductions: add up each column except (c)		SHADED	SHADED	(g)	(h)	(i)	(h)	(i)	(h)	(i)
Total gross income for each joint income group (transfer amounts from Worksheet 1)		SHADED	SHADED	SHADED	(j)	(k)	(j)	(k)	(j)	(k)
Joint income; for each joint income group, take (h) away from (j) and (i) from (k)		SHADED	SHADED	Transfer amount at (g) to (d) on worksheet 6	(l)	(m)	(l)	(m)	(l)	(m)
(n) is the total net income for each income group: add (l) and (m)		SHADED	SHADED	SHADED	(n)		(n)		(n)

Step 3 For each separate joint income group, you will have an (n) on worksheet 2 that is either positive or negative. For each income group you need to separately translate the worksheet 2 results to worksheet 6 using the instructions in table 1 or table 2 as appropriate.

If the amount at (n) for a joint income group is positive use table 1, if the amount at (n) is negative use table 2.

Table 1: Amount at (n) on worksheet 2 is positive
Result	Action 1	Action 2
Amount at (m) is negative or 0	Transfer amount at (n) to (e) on worksheet 6 and write 0 at (g) on worksheet 6 next to the correct joint income group.	Write 0 at (f) on worksheet 6, next to the correct joint income group.
Amounts at (l) and (m) are positive	Transfer amount at (n) to (e) on worksheet 6 and write 0 at (g) on worksheet 6 next to the correct joint income group.	Transfer amount at (m) to (f) on worksheet 6, next to the correct joint income group.
Amount at (l) is negative and (m) is positive	Transfer amount at (n) to both (e) and (f) on worksheet 6 next to the correct joint income group.	Write 0 at (g) on worksheet 6 next to the correct joint income group.

Table 2: Amount at (n) on worksheet 2 is negative
Result	Action 1	Action 2
Amount at (m) is negative and (l) is 0	Write 0 at the joint income group for both (e) and (f) on worksheet 6, next to the correct joint income group.	Transfer as a positive figure the amount at (n) to (g) on worksheet 6, next to the correct joint income group.
Amount at (l) is positive and (m) is negative	Write 0 at both (e) and (f) on worksheet 6, next to the correct joint income group.	Transfer as a positive figure the amount at (n) to (g) on worksheet 6, next to the correct joint income group.
Amount at (l) is negative and (m) is positive or 0	Write 0 at both (e) and (f) on worksheet 6, next to the correct joint income group.	Write 0 at (g) on worksheet 6, next to the correct joint income group.
Amount at (l) is negative and (m) is negative	Write 0 at both (e) and (f) on worksheet 6, next to the correct joint income group.	Transfer as a positive figure the amount at (m) to (g) on worksheet 6, next to the correct joint income group.

Worksheet 2: Working out your sole and joint deductions

Tools

Tax information for

Help and support