Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
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Hide history noteSECTION 28-170 Exception for particular cars used in particular ways 28-170(1)
For particular types of *cars used in particular ways you don ' t need to use one of the 2 methods to calculate your deductions for *car expenses.
28-170(2)
You may use one of the 2 methods, or you may instead calculate the deductions under the normal principles governing deductions, including the rules for apportioning a loss or outgoing that is only partly attributable to producing assessable income.
28-170(3)
This section applies if, whenever you used the *car in the income year:
(a) the car was covered by the description in column 2 of an item in the table below; and
(b) you used the car as described in column 3 of that item.
| Item |
Column 2
Particular car |
Column 3
Exempt use |
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| 1. | The *car was: | You used the car only in one or more of the following ways: | ||
| (a) | a panel van or utility truck; or | (a) | in the course of producing your assessable income; | |
| (b) | any other road vehicle designed to carry a load of less than 1 tonne (other than a vehicle designed principally to carry passengers); or | (b) | to go between your residence and a place where you use the car in the course of producing your assessable income; | |
| (c) | a taxi. | (c) | by providing the car to someone else to drive between his or her residence and a place where the car is used in the course of producing your assessable income; | |
| (d) | for the purpose of travel that is incidental to using the car in the course of producing your assessable income; | |||
| (e) | for your own or someone else's private use that was minor, infrequent and irregular. | |||
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| 2. | The *car was part of the *trading stock of a *business of selling cars that you carried on. | You used the car in the course of the business. | ||
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| 3. | The *car was any type of car. | You let the car on lease or hire in the course of a *business of letting cars on lease or hire that you carry on. | ||
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| 4. | The *car was any type of car. | As an employer, you provided the car for the exclusive use of one or more of the following:
(a) your employees; (b) their *relatives; in circumstances where one or more of them was entitled to use the car for private purposes. |
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| Note: | This Subdivision also applies to entities that are not employers, but pay (or are liable to pay) withholding payments covered by subsection 28-185(3). |
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