Best Tax Deductions to Claim for Clothing Trades Workers
Clothing Trades Workers prepare, cut, make and repair garments.
Employment Profile
- Average weekly pay: $805
- Employment size: 6,720
- Future growth: Decline
- Skill level: Certificate III or IV
Typical tax deductions include:
- Motor vehicle travel between job sites, to pick up materials, or attending training courses.
- Computers, tools and equipment.
- Phone and internet – work %.
- Home office occupancy costs if required by the employer to work from home. Includes % of rent, mortgage interest, rates, insurance, etc.
- Overnight travel expenses when away from home overnight for work – includes accomodation and meals.
- Protective clothing including safety-coloured vests, steel-capped boots, and gloves.
- Overtime meals – if overtime meal allowance received under an industrial award.
- Union fees, licences, registrations and subscriptions.
- Courses, seminars and self-education expenses.
- Home office running expenses.
- Compulsory work uniform branded with the employers logo.
Tax Strategies we can assist you with.
- Overtime meal expenses
- Self-education expenses
- Computers, tools, equipment and other assets
- Protective clothing
- Compulsory work uniform
- Union fees, licences, registrations and subscriptions
- Phone and internet
- Motor vehicle expenses: cents per km method
- Home office running expenses
- Overnight travel expenses
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