Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
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Hide history noteYou cannot deduct under this Act an amount to the extent that it relates to gaining or producing that part of your *ordinary income or *statutory income that is your *personal services income if:
(a) the income is not payable to you as an employee; and
(b) you would not be able to deduct the amount under this Act if the income were payable to you as an employee.
Example:
Ruth is an architect who works as an independent contractor for one firm. She is not conducting a personal services business. On most days she travels from her home to the business premises of the firm, where she does her work. She also has a home office, where she does some of her work.
This section confirms that Ruth cannot deduct her expenses of travelling between her home and the firm ' s premises because she could not deduct them if she were an employee.
85-10(2)
Subsection (1) does not stop you deducting an amount to the extent that it relates to:
(a) gaining work; or
Examples:
Advertising, tendering and quoting for work.
(b) insuring against loss of your income or your income earning capacity; or
Examples:
Sickness, accident and disability insurance.
(c) insuring against liability arising from your acts or omissions in the course of earning income; or
Examples:
Public liability insurance and professional indemnity insurance.
(d) engaging an entity that is not your *associate to perform work; or
(e) engaging your *associate to perform work that forms part of the principal work for which you gain or produce your *personal services income; or
(f) contributing to a fund in order to obtain *superannuation benefits for yourself or for your *SIS dependants in the event of your death; or
Note:
For deductions for superannuation contributions: see Subdivision 290-C .
(g) meeting your obligations under a *workers ' compensation law to pay premiums, contributions or similar payments or to make payments to an employee in respect of *compensable work-related trauma; or
(h) meeting your obligations, or exercising your rights, under the *GST law.
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