Best Tax Deductions to Claim for Sports Coach, Instructors and Officials
Sports Coach, Instructors and Officials coach, train and instruct participants in sports, and officiate at sporting events.
Employment Profile
- Average weekly pay: $1,085.60
- Employment size: 42,000
- Future growth: Very Strong
- Skill level: Certificate III or IV
Typical tax deductions include:
- Manager and agent fees.
- Professional association fees and competition entry fees.
- Motor vehicle travel to and from training, matches and other sporting activities if required to transport bulky sporting gear.
- Overnight travel expenses if required to travel away from home overnight to play an interstate or overseas game.
- Phone and internet – work %.
- Luggage if used to transport gear used to play an interstate game.
- Compulsory or corporate clothing, where there is a strictly enforced policy making it compulsory to wear that clothing – includes shirts with club emblems or embellishments, standard matching shorts or tracksuits, hats or caps with club emblems, jerseys and jumpers with club emblems, and suits with club emblems.
- Protective clothing including headgear, mouthguards, sun-protection clothing, and sports skins.
- Sun protection items including sunglasses, sunscreens, and cosmetics.
- Computers, tools and equipment – includes training equipment such as weights, mats, bars, sound system, and treadmill.
- Self-education expenses if related to current occupation.
- Home office running expenses.
- Union fees, licences, registrations and subscriptions.
Professional memberships.
Non-deductible expenses:
- Medical expenses.
- General exercise clothing including tracksuits, shorts, tank tops, running shoes, sweat socks, armbands, headbands, and t-shirts.
Tax Strategies we can assist you with.
- Self-education expenses
- Sunglasses, sunscreens and cosmetics
- 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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