The government has issued new guidelines to set out criteria for tax deductible non-compulsory uniforms.
Editor: The taxation law only allows a deduction to employees for expenditure on uniforms or wardrobes where either:
- the clothing is in the nature of occupation specific, or protective clothing; or
- the wearing of the clothing is a
compulsory condition of employment
for employees and the clothing is not
conventional in nature; or - where the wearing of the clothing is not compulsory, the design of the clothing
is entered on the Register of Approved Occupational Clothing.\
The new guidelines outline (among other things):
- the steps that need to be undertaken by employers to have designs of occupational clothing registered; and
- the factors that will be considered
in determining whether designs of
occupational clothing may be registered.
The guidelines commence on 1 October 2017, and the previous Guidelines are revoked with effect from the same day.
