Tax deductions for cleaners

Cleaners clean houses, offices, hotels, hospitals, schools, industrial work areas, and industrial machines.

Employment Profile

Average weekly pay:     $896
Employment size:          179,500  
Future growth:               Stable        
Skill level                         High School or Certificate I

Typical tax deductions include:

• Motor vehicle travel to and from work if having either shifting workplaces (working at more than one site each day before returning home), or transporting bulky equipment (vacuum cleaners, buckets, solvents, and ladders).

• Motor vehicle travel between two jobs, travel to attend meetings and picking up supplies.

• Phone and internet  – work %.

• Union fees, renewing machinery operating licences, registrations and subscriptions.

• Protective clothing and equipment including safety-coloured vests, steel-capped boots, gloves, overalls, aprons, safety glasses, goggles, and breathing masks.

• Compulsory work uniform branded with the employer logo.

• Courses, seminars and self-education expenses.

• Computers, tools and equipment.

• Overtime meal expenses – if paid an overtime meal allowance under an industrial award or law.

• Technical or professional magazines related to the cleaning job, e.g.  Inclean magazine.

• Home office running expenses.

Tax Strategies we can assist you with.

Overtime meal expenses
Self education expenses
Computers, tools, equipment and other assets
Protective clothing
Compulsory work uniform
Logbook for motor vehicles
Union fees, licences, registrations and subscriptions
Phone and internet
Home office running expenses