Income tax: car expense substantiation: if a taxpayer uses a car to travel more than 5000 kilometres for income producing purposes, can the cents per kilometre method be used to make a claim for car expenses by limiting the claim to 5000 kilometres?

The Tax Law Improvement Project is restructuring, renumbering and rewriting the income tax law in plain language. The Parliament is amending the income tax law progressively to reflect these aims. As new laws come into effect, Taxation Rulings about old laws are being brought ino line with them.

Taxation Determination TD 93/147 is withdrawn with effect from today.

Division 28-25 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 provides a clear answer to the question being addressed by this Determination. This answer is in accordance with the Commissioner's interpretation as outlined in this Determination which applied to the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 .