Well I bought a set of Harley Davidson premium travel bags as I legit use them for work 99% of the time as I work away. Ride to work Monday travel in a work car away all week.
Now could I purchase a tour pack for my Harley with similar reasoning. Tour pack is a $2000 hard case (Including brackets etc etc) on a rack.
Or is that pushing it?
Interesting question.
If you consider you can claim then would the justification logic also apply to the Harley itself?
No you can't claim for the Harley. That's a personal expense. Same was you can't claim on a car, even if you only use it for work.
My understanding is you can't claim expenses for traveling to or from your primary workplace. So if you only use them for that then no, you couldn't claim on them. If however you take them with you to sites and they primarily carry your tools and required work items rather than personal items then you can claim the work portion of use.
Good luck
Marco from Tropoja?
Ride to work Monday travel in a work car away all week.
This does not meet the threshold.. you are simply travelling from home to work… unless you are carrying the travel bags around with you all week for your laptop, mobile and shiv?
It’ll depend on what you are carrying within them.
Handbags, briefcases and satchels
You may be able to claim a deduction for a handbag, briefcase or satchel you buy to carry items you are required to use and carry for your work, such as laptops, tablets, work papers or diaries. The amount of the deduction will depend on the how much you use the bag for work purposes.
You can't claim a deduction if you mainly use the bag for personal purposes, such as carrying your lunch and beauty and hygiene products. This is private use.
https://www.ato.gov.au/individuals/income-and-deductions/ded…
Ride to work Monday travel in a work car away all week.
If this is so. No claim available in any vehicle (to or from work)
Edit: sorry misread the question on my phone and thought it was the Harley itself
Don’t see an issue with the travel bags if they are to facilitate your time away
Or is that pushing it?
You can claim anything you want…… Its only when audited you have to prove its a valid expense in the eyes of the ATO.
This is correct.
And if you have a reasonable argument, which SF3 has shown a reasonable argument, you won’t be penalised even if the ATO disagrees. There might be just an adjustment if they disagree with your point of view.
So should be no (financial )problem.
Ops, meant to reply to jimmyF when I said this is correct.
You are using a work car between sites. The tour pack is only being used to get to work. This is a private expense.
The tour pack is an accessorie that I use to transport clothes/laptop/ odd tools to work to do my job.
Would fall under same as putting a toolbox on my privite veh to carry to tools to workplace then putting them onto work veh.
The bike is only used to get to work, but using the HD luggage I'm still rather limited.
Hey man don’t need to sell us on it, as long as you got proof of logged hours specifically for work purposes only and other associated proof you should be fine. Considering you said you take company car rest of the week, your ‘work only’ portion of the claim doesn’t sound to be more than 10% if that…
Putting a toolbox on a private vehicle then moving the contents to another vehicle is also a private expense.
Yes but the toolbox itself isn’t private
It can be a tax deduction if the normal place of work can't provide secure storage for the toolbox
Your ride to and from your normal place of work is not tax deductable.
You might be able to classify them as a briefcase or toolbox if you are in a suitable occupation.
OMG a real life OzB bikie!
If you legittttt use it for work and can prove it in an event of an audit it’s fair game. Just only claim the percentage you use it for work.