Flight attendants - claiming work-related expenses

Keeping records of your clothing, laundry and dry-cleaning expenses

You do not need to keep receipts or other written evidence of your claim if the total amount of your laundry expenses is $150 or less, or your total claim for work-related expenses is $300 or less. However, you must be able to show how you worked out your claim.

If you did washing, drying or ironing yourself, you can use a reasonable basis to calculate the amount, such as $1 per load for work-related clothing, or 50 cents per load if other laundry items were included.

If your claim for laundry expenses is more than $150 and your total claim for work-related expenses is more than $300 (not including car, meal allowance, award transport payment allowance and travel allowance expenses), the records you must keep include:

• receipts, or other written evidence of your expenses
• diary entries you make to record
• your small expenses ($10 or less) totalling no more than $200 that you do not have a receipt for
• expenses that you cannot get any kind of evidence for regardless of the amount - for example, a diary record of your laundromat costs.

To claim a deduction for the cost of uniforms, report the amount at D3 Work-related clothing, laundry and dry-cleaning expenses on your income tax return.

To help you work out your claim, use our Work-related uniform expenses calculator.

Sections within Work-related clothing, laundry and dry-cleaning expenses you can claim

• Keeping records of your clothing, laundry and dry-cleaning expenses
• Clothing, laundry and dry-cleaning you cannot claim