The ATO has updated its list of 'What attracts our attention', with six items that specifically relate to fringe benefits tax('FBT'), as follows:
- Failing to report motor vehicle fringe benefits, incorrectly applying exemptions for vehicles or incorrectly claiming reductions for these benefits.
- Incorrectly calculating car parking fringe benefits due to:
– significantly discounting market valuations;
– using non-commercial parking rates; or
– parking rates not being supported by adequate evidence.
- Mismatches between the amount reported as an employee contribution on an FBT return compared to the income amounts on an employer's tax return.
- Claiming entertainment expenses as a deduction but not correctly reporting them as a fringe benefit, or incorrectly classifying entertainment expenses as sponsorship or advertising.
- Not reporting fringe benefits on business assets that are provided for the personal enjoyment of employees or associates.
- Not lodging FBT returns (or lodging them late) to delay or avoid payment of tax.
