Relieving Employee Living Away From Home - Dinner Meal Allowance


Award Definition

Ambulance and Patient Transport Industry Award 2010 [MA000098]

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Applies from: 01/07/2023

Allowance Description

An employee required to relieve another employee and to live away from home is entitled to receive an allowance to cover meal expenses as follows:

 

$

Breakfast

18.36

Lunch

36.75

Dinner

55.13

Total

110.24



What to pay

$55.13 for a meal

Notes

This is a type of expense allowance where we would expect the employee to claim a deduction for this in their tax return

Should you withhold tax?

Do not withhold from this allowancd

Should super be paid on this allowance?

This allowance should not form part of ordinary times earnings

Should payroll tax be paid on this allowance?

Include this allowance for payroll tax purposes

How is it treated on the payment summary?

Show the allowance separately in the allowance box

How should it be reported for Single Touch Payroll?

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