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Kyna(Newbie)Newbie
12 Dec 2024

Hi all - your help would be greatly appreciated as I'm getting conflicting advice.


This query relates to a Novated Lease that a staff member has requested. The NL company has provided the below information:-

1) the FBT base value is $80,107.90 and the fortnightly payment is $1,057.14 (including $96.10 GST).


The vehicle packaging schedule is calculated to cover lease payment ($715.96); budgets for maintenance, tyres, fuel, comprehensive insurance, rego and CTP ($228.93); admin fees ($16.15) and GST (96.10) giving a total of $1,057.14/fortnight. The NL company will bill the employer $1,057.14/fortnight.


The fortnightly payroll calculations have been notified as:-

1) Gross rental (inc GST) $1,057.14

2) Pre-tax salary sacrifice (exl GST) is $400.85

3) Input tax credit (claim on BAS) is $40.08

4) Post-tax ECM employee contribution (incl non-claimable GST) is $616.21


This lease is to be used by the staff member for 100% private use and the above deductions from the wages shows the entire fortnightly lease cost is being born by the employee (via pre & post tax deductions).


What if any is the FBT liability for the employer? What is the correct way to handle this from an accounting point of view.


I look forward to your help.

Regards

JAC

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Introvertable(I'm new)I'm new
10 Jan 2025

Post-tax is correct, under the assumption that the lease was held for 365 days and the full post-tax amount was collected over the 26 pay runs between April and March. Essentially, there is no FBT liability as long as 20% of the original capital value (CV) of the car is contributed by the employee from their net salary. The statutory 20% of the CV is relative to (days the car was available)/(days in FBT period).

In regards to the lease payment, if the lease period is over 36 months there might be a risk of over-reducing the car's residual value, but this should be outlined in the novated quote provided to your company when you agreed to the lease. It's mandatory a residue value of 46.88% of the CV at the end of a 3-year lease.

GST looks alright too.

The employee should not have an RFBA on their tax summary.

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