Thread: New road maintenace vehicle

Good to hear that you're back on the road in a land rover Ferno

I am pretty sure that you can claim 5000 km per year without receipts, regardless of your employment...

Originally Posted by BigJon

I am pretty sure that you can claim 5000 km per year without receipts, regardless of your employment...

would recommend consulting with tax proffesional on that one ,tis a fine line with lots of fuzzy grey areas if not sub-contract,things like permanent places of employment,travel not allowed,must be itinerant work places,better safe than owing johhny heaps

Originally Posted by fernockulated

Thumper is my daily driver ,but being a subby all fuel is tax deductible (thanks for that little johhny),as is ALL running costs,repairs ,tyres,(hmmmm,a set of muddies mite be called for soon )so main thing is not to get too paranoid about fuel costs,otherwise will have no hair left at all

I'm seem to be in the same enviable situation too.....

My argument is that as a subbie, I still have to fork out the cost of the fuel, and only getting back "your taxable income percentage" back on that cost is what most people forget to allow for!

Lower your costs (fit LPG...that should be an allowable deduction???) and pay less for the fuel, as it should keep more $ in your pocket!

But then again...if you're like me and you keep telling yourself that gas is cheap I can 'afford' to go for another drive!! Thus spending more on fuel!!

have never really been a fan of gas conversions ,have seen some with probs after running mainly on gas then wont run on petrol,and problems with cold morning starts with the gas lines freezing,yarda,yarda,yarda,and also the fact that gas fillup places are few and far between out here in the bush is another negative ,I just try not to look as the $$$$$ go round and round and round and round...........

I know you said you attempted the wash out, but did you make it

Fernockulated - I always use a Tax Professional for my Tax Returns. I don't claim to know much about that sort of stuff, so I use an expert. By the same token, he doesn't service his own vehicle because it is not his area of expertise, whereas I do.

Originally Posted by DiscoTDI

I know you said you attempted the wash out, but did you make it

Originally Posted by ferno

attempted the washout that DiscoTdi put his rig in last time he was here and walked it in,

so to answer your question ,again, yep sure did,and i made it up the loose scraggy rocky diff bashing hillclimb as well,without hitting my diffs
will have to see if my mate has still got the pics he took with his camera