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aqua92(Newbie)Newbie
2 June 2023

Good afternoon ATO.

 

We are a unit trust with employees who got salary packing on luxury cars. 

Due to the limitation of depreciation up to the luxury car limit, our novated lease provider has included an amount for luxury car adjustment, which we deduct from our employee's pay but is not remitted to lease provider. The difference between what we pay lease provider and what we deduct from our employees is this luxury car adjustment relating to luxury car depreciation limits.

We'd like to want to know what would be the correct treatment of this deduction?

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Bruce4Tax(Taxicorn)Taxicorn
2 June 2023

  1. Luxury car leases are not deductible the same way as ordinary leases - you have to covert claim to an equivalent depn + interest. https://vehiclesolutions.com.au/can-buy-luxury-vehicle-novated-lease/
  2. The amount deducted from the employee is taxable and subject to GST as employees FBT contribution.


lucasSong81(I'm new)I'm new
27 June 2024

Hi I have a same question.

Lease provider remitted luxury car adjustment to our business account, we haven't accounted the vehicle so far. What is the best practice to account the refund of luxury car adjustment?


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