Adjusted taxable income
A person's adjusted taxable income is the sum of the following amounts:
- taxable income (excluding any assessable First home super saver released amount)
- reportable employer superannuation contributions
- deductible personal superannuation contributions
- adjusted fringe benefits total, which is the sum of:
- reportable fringe benefits amounts received from employers exempt from fringe benefits tax under section 57A of the Fringe Benefits Tax Assessment Act 1986 multiplied by 0.53, and
- reportable fringe benefits amounts from employers not exempt from fringe benefits tax under section 57A of the Fringe Benefits Tax Assessment Act 1986
- certain tax-free government pensions or benefits received by the person
- target foreign income (income and certain other amounts from sources outside Australia not included in your taxable income or received as a fringe benefit)
- net financial investment loss (the amount by which the person's deductions attributable to financial investments exceeded their total financial investment income)
- net rental property loss (the amount by which the person's deductions attributable to rental property exceeded their rental property income)
less
- any child support payments the person provided to another person.
Maintaining a dependant
You maintained a dependant if any of the following applied:
- you both lived in the same house
- you gave them food, clothing and lodging
- you helped them to pay for their living, medical and educational costs.
If you had a spouse for the whole of 2018–19 and your spouse worked at any time during the year, we still consider you to have maintained your spouse as a dependant for the whole income year.
We consider you to have maintained a dependant even if the two of you were temporarily separated, for example, due to holidays or overseas travel.
If you maintained a dependant for only part of the year, you may need to adjust your claim accordingly.
Shared care
You had shared care if you, and your spouse if you had one, cared for your child for some of the income year, and someone else, such as a former spouse, cared for the child for the rest of the income year.
If you received family tax benefit (FTB) Part B as part of a shared-care arrangement, you will need to know your FTB shared-care percentage to calculate your spouse offset. Your FTB shared-care percentage is usually not the same as your ‘shared care percentage’ which appears on correspondence you have received from the Department of Human Services (now known as Services Australia).
If you do not know your FTB shared-care percentage, contact the Department of Human Services (now known as Services Australia) on 13 61 50.
Sole care
Sole care means that you alone had full responsibility, on a day-to-day basis, for the upbringing, welfare and maintenance of a child or student. You are not considered to have sole care if you are living with a spouse (married or de facto) unless special circumstances exist. Generally, for special circumstances to exist, you must be financially responsible for the dependent child or student and have sole care without the support that a spouse normally provides.
Situations where special circumstances may arise include the following:
- You were married for some time during 2018–19 but
- during 2018–19, you then separated from, or were deserted by, your spouse, and
- for the remainder of 2018–19, you were not in a de facto relationship.
- Your spouse was in prison for a sentence of 12 months or more.
- Your spouse is medically certified as being permanently mentally incapable of taking part in caring for the child or student.
If you are not sure whether special circumstances apply, phone 13 28 61.
Spouse
Your spouse includes another person (of any sex) who, for 2018–19:
- you were in a relationship with that was registered under a prescribed state or territory law
- although not legally married to you, lived with you on a genuine domestic basis in a relationship as a couple.