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OliveGuo(Initiate)Initiate
17 Aug 2021

Hi ,

My Company is a vendor of IT product , and my company is going to provide sales commission (in the form of supermarket gifftcard) to our resellers' (reseller has multiple vendor for the same category of product) individual employee after the reseller's employee has successfully sell our brand to end customer.

It's like there are a few different brands of computer in JB HiFIi, and one of the computer vendor** wants to give giftcard to JB HiFI sales person if he/she can sell 10 **computer sin a month. The incentive is not lot, we are talking about 1-2% of the product , depends on the individual sales ability, it can be more than $300/year .

I want to ask as the incentive provider, does my company need to withhold tax when providing the incentive ? Are the cost of purchasing those giftcards tax deductible for my company? Is there FBT issue involved here?

Thank you

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AriATO(Community Support)Community Support
24 Aug 2021

Hi @OliveGuo

The types of payments you withhold from are mainly to your own employees or suppliers and based on what you have said these don't apply.

There wouldn't be FBT implications if they're not your employee however if you have an agreement with their employer then there could be implications for them.

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Chantelle ATO(Community Support)Community Support
18 Aug 2021

Hi @OliveGuo

Tax on commissions will be calculated using Schedule 5 as per our website.

You may be able to claim a deduction if you've incurred expenses such as providing incentives including gift cards. Just remember the three golden rules when claiming deductions:

- the expense must have been for your business, not for private use

- if the expense is for a mix of business and private use, you can only claim the portion that is used for your business

- you must have records to prove it

Gift cards given to staff are usually FBT exempt where the total cost is less than $300 per staff member.

Have a look at this thread that we've answered about deductible gift cards and this thread about gift cards and FBT.

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