Ways To Maximise Your 2025 Tax Return.

🧾Ready to make the most of your 2025 tax return? Here are some strategies to help you boost your refund and stay compliant with the ATO:

💼 Claim All Work-Related Expenses
- Uniforms, tools, subscriptions, and training directly tied to your job are deductible.- Keep receipts—claims over $300 require documentation.

🏠 Work-From-Home Deductions
- Choose between the 67c/hour shortcut, fixed rate, or actual cost method.
- Track hours and keep bills for electricity, internet, and phone usage.

🚗 Vehicle & Travel Costs
- Use the logbook method to claim a percentage of your car’s running costs.
- Travel between job sites or to training may be deductible.

📚 Self-Education & Upskilling
- Claim tuition, textbooks, travel, and home office costs if the study relates to your current job.
- Career-change courses aren’t eligible.

❤️ Charitable Donations
- Donations over $2 to registered charities are deductible.Continue
- Keep receipts and verify the charity’s DGR status.

📲 Keep Digital Records
- Use apps like ReceiptHub or myDeductions to track expenses year-round
https://www.ato.gov.au/online-services/online-services-for-individuals-and-sole-traders/ato-app/mydeductions
- The ATO prefers digital copies for audits.

🧾 Claiming Work-Related Clothing Expenses
-Regardless of whether you’re an employee or you’re self-employed, if you wear a specific uniform, protective or occupation-specific clothing, you may be able to claim purchase and cleaning costs for these items
-What you can’t claim
You cannot claim clothing or laundry expenses if you wear what would be considered “conventional clothing” to work.

🧾 Claiming Work-Related Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Expenses
-You can claim any costs incurred to launder, dry-clean, or repair clothing if it meets the same criteria above. Therefore, it must be either occupation-specific, protective, compulsory or a registered non-compulsory uniform.
 

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