Tax Information Bulletin, Vol 18, No 5 (June 2006), please note that in the second part of the example shown on page 78 the reference to "1 July 2006" should read "1 July 2005" and the reference to "1 July 2007" should read "1 July 2006", as shown in the next column."> Skip to Content


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Tax Information Bulletin: Corrections

Correction - FBT tax value of vehicle under different balance date scenarios

In the item published under the section, "New Legislation" in the Tax Information Bulletin, Vol 18, No 5 (June 2006), please note that in the second part of the example shown on page 78 the reference to "1 July 2006" should read "1 July 2005" and the reference to "1 July 2007" should read "1 July 2006", as shown in the next column.

Example

Assuming that the vehicle was held for the whole year:
  1. For the owner of a vehicle with a balance date of 31 March who is completing a quarterly FBT return for the period April- June 2006, the tax value would be the vehicle's depreciated value at the beginning of the 2006-07 tax year, that is, as at 1 April 2006. This value would also apply to the September 2006, December 2006 and March 2007 FBT returns.
  2. For the owner of a vehicle with a balance date of 30 June who is completing a quarterly FBT return for the period April-June 2006, the tax value would be the vehicle's depreciated value at the beginning of the 2005-06 tax year, that is, as at 1 July 2005. For the September 006 quarter's FBT return, the tax value would be the depreciated value as at 1 July 2006.
    (emphasis added)
Assuming that the vehicle was acquired on 7 December 2005 at a cost of $30,000:
In case (1) the tax value for the June 2006 FBT quarter's return would be its depreciated value as at 1 April 2006 whereas in case (2) its tax value would be its cost price of $30,000.

The example implicitly assumes that the employer can use the tax value option in the return for April-June 2006, although the vehicle was owned before that date. This would be the case if:

  • when the vehicle was owned for the whole year, at least five years had lapsed since the beginning of the vehicle's initial return period; and
  • when the vehicle was acquired on 7 December 2005, the first return for the vehicle is for the April-June 2006 quarter (that is, the vehicle was not used to provide fringe benefits until that quarter even though it had been purchased some months earlier).

 

 


Date published: 11 Oct 2006

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