Wages checklist: Payroll Tax Employer Guide

Wage and liability types.
Type Liability
Accommodation Fringe benefit
Accommodation allowances Exempt component applies
Adoption leave Exempt
Agency-supplied staff Taxable
Allowances Taxable
Annual leave Taxable
Annual leave paid on termination Taxable
Apprentices' wages Exempt
Backpay Taxable
Board and quarters Fringe benefit
Bona fide redundancy payments (tax-free component) Exempt
Bonuses Taxable
Car parking Fringe benefit
Commissions Taxable
Company cars Fringe benefit
Consultant's fees Taxable if an employment relationship exists
Contractor payments Taxable if an employment relationship exists
Credit cards Fringe benefit
Debt waivers Fringe benefit
Defence force leave Exempt
Directors' fees Taxable
Discounted staff and director purchases Fringe benefit
Education expenses Fringe benefit
Employer-funded (pre-income tax) superannuation contributions Taxable
Employment agency personnel Taxable as wages paid or payable by the employment agent
Entertainment allowances Fringe benefit
Fringe benefits Exempt fringe benefits and fringe benefits with a nil taxable value are not taxable
Gross wages Taxable
GST component of wages Not taxable
Health insurance Fringe benefit
Holiday pay Taxable
Home garaging Fringe benefit
Housing Fringe benefit
Jury duty Taxable if the payment is made by the employer (even where reimbursed by the court)
Leave loading Taxable
Leave paid out Taxable
Living away from home allowances Fringe benefit
Loans (interest free / low interest) Fringe benefit
Long service leave Taxable
Maternity leave Exempt
Motor vehicles Fringe benefit
Motor vehicle allowances Exempt component applies
Options Taxable
Overtime Taxable
Paid parental leave (Commonwealth scheme) Not taxable
Parental leave Exempt
Payments in lieu of notice Taxable
Piece-work payments Taxable
Portable long service leave fund payments Taxable
Redundancy benefits scheme payments Taxable
Reimbursements (business expenses) Not taxable under certain conditions
Relocation payments Fringe benefit
School fees Fringe benefit
Share Schemes Taxable
Sick leave Taxable
Staff discounts Fringe benefit
Study leave Taxable
Subcontractors Taxable if an employment relationship exists
Subscriptions Fringe benefit
Subsidised wages Taxable regardless of source of wages
Superannuation contributions (pre-income tax/employer) Taxable
Taxi fares Fringe benefit
Telephone account payments Fringe benefit
Termination payments
- Accrued annual leave and long service leave
- Employment termination payments
- Bona-fide redundancy payments

- Taxable
- Taxable (income-tax assessable component)
- Exempt (income tax-free component). Amounts in excess of tax free component are taxable
Trainee wages Taxable
Travel (free or subsidised) Fringe benefit
Volunteer fire-fighters (and volunteers providing other emergency services) Exempt
Vouchers Fringe benefit
Worker鈥檚 compensation payments Exempt however make-up pay is taxable
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