Each year the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) release a series of guides for specific occupations.

These guides are designed to help you, the taxpayer, to understand what you can and can’t claim as work-related expenses.

The guides are broken down into sections that match the labels in the income tax return and include car expenses, home office expenses, clothing expenses and self-education expenses.

The current guides available are for the following occupations:

• construction workers
• retail workers
• office workers
• Australian Defence Force
• sales and marketing
• nurse, midwife or carer
• police officers
• public servants
• teachers
• truck drivers

If you would like to download a copy of these guides, you can perform a search from this link.

As always, if you are unsure, ask me!

Regards