Tax Time 2019 Shareable Content Working Group key messages 4 June 2020

The Tax Time 2019 Shareable Content Working Group met on 4 June 2020 to review and provide feedback on new and revised occupational posters and web content. The group also revised a previously reviewed fact sheet.

The products reviewed were:

• Revised - Working from home – updated website content to explain the three different methods for this tax time.
• Tax time 2020 welcome pack poster and website content.

Recruitment consultant

The group provided feedback and suggested that:

• links be put in place to relevant information located elsewhere on the website
• clothing and laundry section should mention whether the uniform is compulsory or not
• home office section doesn’t mention office furniture
• self-education information is too broad, and examples should be provided
• this product should be consistent with other occupation posters.

Rental property - damaged and destroyed property

The group provided feedback and suggested that:

• information on choosing to claim capital gain should be re-worded
• examples should be provided on all points to clarify information.

Revision - security guard

The group provided feedback and advised that this product was more occupation specific than it was before, however other feedback provided was:

• meal allowance and self-education wording sections need to be reworded.

Revision - working from home web content

The group provided feedback and advised that the flow of the document and examples provided were great. Other feedback provided was:

• once printed, the web content does not display correctly
• accountants might like to see this information in a spreadsheet, and tradies might like to see a visual flow chart.

Tax Time 2020 welcome pack

Due to time constraints, a separate meeting on 10 June was planned to discuss Tax Time 2020 content.

Final summary

This group will meet again on 10 June 2020 to take a closer look at the Tax Time content. Papers for review will be sent a week prior to the meeting date.