{"id":1840,"date":"2018-05-08T17:20:16","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T07:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cruzandco.com.au\/?p=1840"},"modified":"2018-05-08T12:23:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T02:23:22","slug":"clients-car-expenses-claims-get-blowtorch-treatment-tax-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cruzandco.com.au\/clients-car-expenses-claims-get-blowtorch-treatment-tax-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Clients\u2019 Car Expenses Claims to Get the Blowtorch Treatment This Tax Time"},"content":{"rendered":"
By: Steve Burnham<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/a>Assistant Commissioner Kath Anderson has announced that the ATO is particularly concerned about taxpayers either making mistakes or deliberately lodging false claims in relation to work-related car expenses over tax time 2018.<\/p>\n \u201cLast year around 3.5\u00a0million people made a work-related car expense claims, and together they totalled about $8.8\u00a0billion,\u201d Anderson says. \u201cNow that\u2019s a lot of money \u2014 and Australians expect us to make sure that people are doing the right thing and not over claiming.\u201d<\/p>\n