Applying the tax rules to luxury cars
Recorded 6 November 2025.
This webinar works through how to identify and apply the correct tax treatment to a range of scenarios involving luxury motor vehicles.
Deductions and GST credits under ATO scrutiny
Applying the modified tax rules for luxury cars
Recorded 6 November 2025
Get clarity on the luxury car tax rules before your clients miss out.
The tax rules contain some specific modifications for luxury cars which can sometimes impact on the deductions and GST credits that can be claimed. However, certain vehicles are excluded from the rules and this can have a significant impact on the after-tax position of clients.
Join Michael Carruthers for the Applying the tax rules to luxury cars webinar and work through how to identify and apply the correct tax treatment to a range of scenarios involving luxury motor vehicles. We’ll work through the correct tax treatments for a range of real-world scenarios, ensuring you know exactly what can be claimed and by whom, from the perspectives of employees, business owners and employers.
Don’t miss your chance to protect your clients’ interests.
Total 1.25 CPD Hours
- Identify when a motor vehicle is treated as a luxury car for tax depreciation and GST purposes and the exceptions that can apply
- Explain the process for calculating GST credits and tax depreciation deductions when dealing with a luxury car
- Explain the tax impact of entering into a luxury car lease arrangement
- Identify the key tax issues that need to be considered when a client disposes of a luxury car
Michael Carruthers
Tax Director, Knowledge Shop
Michael is an adviser, author, in demand presenter, mentor to Knowledge Shop’s technical team, and is well known for his capacity to translate highly technical information into tangible and useable advice for the profession. He has a knack for seeing through the complexity and helping advisers work through highly technical issues with certainty and accuracy.
Michael works with advisers every day to help them negotiate and implement the constant tide of change impacting the industry. He was a long-term member of the advisory panel for the Board of Taxation and was a member of the reference group for the Board’s review of small business concessions.
He was also an expert panel member for the Board’s review of tax impediments facing small business.
Applying the tax rules to luxury cars
Tax & Accounting
1.25 hours | 1 modules
Investment per person:
$213.64
+ GST
Team cost:
$540.91
+ GST
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CPD Hours: 1.25 hrs
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Tax Accounting
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