This question is about payments of income from working. These include:
- allowances
- payments from which tax was not withheld, including
- salary, wages, commissions, bonuses
- income earned from part-time and casual jobs
- income from income protection, sickness and accident insurance policies
- tips, gratuities and payments for your services
- consultation fees
- payments for voluntary services (honoraria).
Allowances include:
- car, travel and transport allowances, and reimbursements of car expenses (calculated by reference to the distance travelled by the car, such as 'cents-per-kilometre' allowances)
- award transport payments (paid under an industrial law or award that was in force on 29 October 1986)
- tool, clothing and laundry allowances
- dirt, height, site, first aid and risk allowances
- meal and entertainment allowances.
If you received a travel or an overtime meal allowance paid under an industrial law, award or agreement, do not show it on your tax return if:
- you spent the whole amount on deductible expenses
- it was not shown on your payment summary, and
- it does not exceed the Commissioner's reasonable allowance amount.
You cannot claim deductions for expenses that you paid for with that allowance. For more information, see Taxation Determination TD 2016/13 – Income tax: what are the reasonable travel and overtime meal allowance expense amounts for the 2016–17 income year?
Did you receive any of the above payments?
No |
Go to question 3 Employer lump sum payments 2017, or return to main menu Individual tax return instructions 2017. |
Yes |
Read below. |
Answering this question
You will need:
- your payment summaries or comparable statements
- details of payments that you received that are not shown on a payment summary or comparable statement.
If you do not have all your payment summaries or comparable statements, contact your employer or payer for a copy or comparable statement. If you are unsuccessful in obtaining any of these, there is information in Lost or missing PAYG withholding payment summary.
Completing your tax return
Step 1
Add up any tax withheld from these payments. Do not include any amount of tax withheld that you have shown at other items, such as item 1.
Write the amount under Tax withheld at the left of K item 2.
Step 2
Add up all of these payments. Do not include any amount of income that you have shown at other items, such as item 1.
Write the amount under Income at K item 2.
Where to go next
- Go to question 3 Employer lump sum payments 2017
- Return to main menu Individual tax return instructions 2017
- Go back to question 1 Salary or wages 2017