Car parking
We all know how expensive commercial car parking can be.
The ATO has noticed that where car parking benefits are being declared (that is, where an employer provides parking to an employee), the value of what is being declared is significantly less than what you would expect to pay.
Common errors include:
- Market valuations that are significantly less than the fees charged for parking within a one-kilometre radius of the premises on which the car is parked;
- Using parking rates or facilities not readily identifiable as a commercial parking station;
- Rates charged for monthly parking on properties purchased for future development that do not have any car parking infrastructure; and
- Insufficient evidence to support the rates used as the lowest fee charged for all-day parking by a commercial parking station.
