{"id":905,"date":"2026-06-25T06:09:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T06:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev5.myvtd.site\/amaze\/?p=905"},"modified":"2026-06-25T06:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T06:10:09","slug":"work-from-home-running-expenses-deduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev5.myvtd.site\/amaze\/work-from-home-running-expenses-deduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Work From Home Running Expenses Deduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ATO has issued new draft guidelines replacing the existing fixed rate method.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"x-el x-el-span c2-28 c2-29 c2-3 c2-5s c2-2j c2-2q c2-5t\">Key Points<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Replaces existing 52c fixed rate method<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Applicable from 1st of July 2022<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 In place for expiring COVID-19 short cut 80c method<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 New rate is 67c per hour<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Includes all expenses like Electricity, Gas, home office cleaning, and mobile and internet costs<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"x-el x-el-span c2-28 c2-29 c2-3 c2-5s c2-2j c2-2q c2-5t\">Eligibility<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Work from home to fulfil your employment needs or to run your business<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Incurring additional running expenses<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Keep and retain records of time spent<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"x-el x-el-span c2-28 c2-29 c2-3 c2-5s c2-2j c2-2q c2-5t\">Pros<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Better rate than the previous fixed rate<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Providing long-term certainty after the Covid-19 rate has expired<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"x-el x-el-span c2-28 c2-29 c2-3 c2-5s c2-2j c2-2q c2-5t\">Cons<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Needs detailed documentation for hours spent for the entire duration (previously only a sample record was required)<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Includes mobile and internet costs as well, so cannot claim separately for them<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Does not consider the recent high inflationary scenario where energy costs have soared more than 50%<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 16.25% lesser than the COVID-19 rate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ATO has issued new draft guidelines replacing the existing fixed rate method. Key Points \u00b7 Replaces existing 52c fixed rate method \u00b7 Applicable from 1st of July 2022 \u00b7 In place for expiring COVID-19 short cut 80c method \u00b7 New rate is 67c per hour \u00b7 Includes all expenses like Electricity, Gas, home office [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev5.myvtd.site\/amaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev5.myvtd.site\/amaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev5.myvtd.site\/amaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev5.myvtd.site\/amaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev5.myvtd.site\/amaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev5.myvtd.site\/amaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":907,"href":"https:\/\/dev5.myvtd.site\/amaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions\/907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev5.myvtd.site\/amaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev5.myvtd.site\/amaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev5.myvtd.site\/amaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev5.myvtd.site\/amaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}