Is meal allowance taxable income?

宁静而致远

请问专家， 在报税单上的meal allowance是否当作taxable income? 可否claim part of deduction 如果真的买了东西吃？

tracychen_2000

both yes for 2 questions.
When working overtime, you can claim up to $25.80 per meal without receipts.

[ 本帖最后由 tracychen_2000 于 2011-9-21 10:26 编辑 ]

宁静而致远

原帖由 tracychen_2000 于 2011-9-21 10:23 发表
both yes for 2 questions.
When working overtime, you can claim up to $25.80 per meal without receipts.

Thanks for that, but my accountant said we must provide receipts otherwise there is no deduction, is that true?

LENNY_DONG

that is ATO Rule. no receipt required but your payment summary must show meal allowance

comets

原帖由 tracychen_2000 于 2011-9-21 10:23 发表
both yes for 2 questions.
When working overtime, you can claim up to $25.80 per meal without receipts.

请问出处在哪里？overtime多长时间可以claim meal 呢？

echoliu

原帖由 comets 于 2011-9-21 11:09 发表



请问出处在哪里？overtime多长时间可以claim meal 呢？

这个取决于你的meal allowance是怎么来的。在employment contract， industrial awards里面会具体写明多少o/t后会有meal allowance.建筑行业的工人onsite是overtime >= 1.5 hours后，就会有这个meal allowance了，相应的，那天你就可以claim meal

宁静而致远

原帖由 STS-TAX 于 2011-9-21 11:09 发表
that is ATO Rule. no receipt required but your payment summary must show meal allowance

Does it mean that without receipt we can claim the whole amount as deduction if the whole meal allowance has treated as income?

yybb

No, see 2nd floor.

yybb

without the receipts, I think you also need time sheet or whatever showing that you're overtime for n times/days, then the total amount can be claimed = n x $25.8(you should also check the ATO website to confirm this figure).

comets

原帖由 echoliu 于 2011-9-21 11:18 发表

这个取决于你的meal allowance是怎么来的。在employment contract， industrial awards里面会具体写明多少o/t后会有meal allowance.建筑行业的工人onsite是overtime >= 1.5 hours后，就会有这个meal allowance了，相应的，那天你就可以claim meal

thank you

宁静而致远

原帖由 yybb 于 2011-9-21 12:32 发表
without the receipts, I think you also need time sheet or whatever showing that you're overtime for n times/days, then the total amount can be claimed = n x $25.8(you should also check the ATO website ...

Thanks for your advice.  However the meal allowance was paid $15.00 (not $25.80) per day if work after 6:00pm, Total allowance paid for last financial year has been shown on "Allowance" column  (not salary). does that mean we can claim $15.00 as deduction per day for whatever been paid. i.e there was $3225.00 meal allowance for whole year (total of 215 days), can we claim the total of $3225.00 as deduction? if yes, do we need to keep receipt?

LENNY_DONG

IF YOUR PAYMENT SUMMARY DID NOT SHOW MEAL ALLOWANCE. U CANT CLAIM ANYTHING

IF YOU HAVE LIKE YOUR SAY 15 MEAL, ALLOWANCE 300,THAT IS 20 MEALS

20*25.8 IS YOUR DEDUTION FIGURE

颓废的败家子

原帖由 宁静而致远 于 2011-9-21 16:38 发表

Thanks for your advice.  However the meal allowance was paid $15.00 (not $25.80) per day if work after 6:00pm, Total allowance paid for last financial year has been shown on "Allowance" column  (not  ...

我小补充以下 deduction 超出 allowance 必须要有证据 才可以做deduction

每个地方的reasonable meal allowance 是不一样 具体去ATO 收

[ 本帖最后由 颓废的败家子 于 2011-9-22 00:36 编辑 ]

friendlc

check your pay slip how much allowance you received per meal, then total allowance / $per meal * 25.8 will be ok