2025 FBT Return Preparation – Full Day Workshops (REGISTRATION OPEN)

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What can you expect? (ONLINE or FACE TO FACE – the content is the same!)

Our full day 2025 FBT Workshops provide everything you need to know for 2025 FBT Return Preparation and reporting of Reportable Fringe Benefits. Our content includes all 13 Fringe Benefit categories, exemptions and concessions, Worked Examples and Case Studies, together with practical tips and guidance, including:

• Recent law and ATO changes
• Overview including Type 1 and Type 2 benefits and employee contributions
• How to prepare the 2025 FBT Return form
• Special rules for Exempt and Rebatable Employers
• Motor vehicles valuation using either statutory formula method and operating cost or logbook method
• Motor vehicle exemptions for Utes and other work related / tool of trade vehicles
• How to treat Electric Vehicles for FBT purposes (Exempt and Non-Exempt)
• Pooled or Shared Cars
• Car parking benefits including new ATO guidance
• Meal Entertainment, Recreational Entertainment and Entertainment Facility Leasing
• The Minor Benefits and On Premises exemptions
• Tax Exempt Body Entertainment
• Temporary and Permanent Relocations / LAFHA v Travel / Remote Area / Expatriates
• Expense Payments, Property benefits, Residual benefits and In-House benefits
• The Otherwise Deductible Rule (ODR)
• Exemptions, Concessions and Reductions
• ATO audit activity and how to avoid an FBT audit
• Requirements for Employer Elections and Declarations
• Requirements for Employee Declarations
• Employee reportable fringe benefits amounts (RFBA), the inclusions and exclusions
• Post Lodgment obligations including Payroll Tax and GST / Income Tax alignment
• Salary Packaging – how it works with practical examples and FBT Reporting of salary packaged benefits (90 minute BONUS SALARY PACKAGING WEBINAR included)

You will receive guidance on how to prepare the 2025 FBT return and:

• Learn how to identify and value all benefits
• Work through the valuation methodologies for all benefit categories including Cars, Utes (1 Tonne plus) Car Parking, Entertainment, Temporary & Permanent Relocations, Living Away From Home, Remote Area, Employee Expenses and Property Benefits
• Illustration through practical examples and case studies
• Gain an understanding of the key documentation requirements for claiming reductions, concessions and exemptions
• How to avoid the most common mistakes that organisations make
• Discover ways that you can achieve real savings and reduce the tax liability for your organisation

Attendees will be provided with:

• Highly experienced FBT practitioner and FBT trainer – Paul Mather
• A hard copy and electronic copy of the Presentation slides
• Our 2025 FBT Reporting Guide
• A detailed updated 2025 FBT Technical Manual
• Our 2025 FBT Return Essentials Checklist
• An attendance certificate for CPD/CPE purposes (8 hours in total)
• Lunch, morning & afternoon tea (please confirm any dietary requirements when registering)
• Opportunities to network with your peers and fellow FBT-preparers over lunch

Registrants also receive the following special offers and discounts:

1. Free access to the FBT Query service until 30 June 2025 – the sooner you register, the sooner you’ll have access to this valuable service from FBT Solutions
2. Bonus Salary Packaging Webinar – to be delivered on Wednesday 16 April
3. Preferential pricing for the FBT Solutions 2025 Car Parking Valuation service
4. Up to 25% special discount on EasyFBT Software

Pricing per attendee:

1. Early Bird $580 inc. GST (register by 12 January 2025)
2. Standard Pricing $680 inc. GST (register from 13 January 2025)

Who should attend?

All personnel involved in the preparation or review of the 2025 FBT return or 2025 reportable fringe benefits amounts, whether new to FBT or those requiring refresher training. This includes Tax Practitioners and Advisers, Tax Managers, Tax Accountants, Financial Accountants, Payroll Managers and Staff, Salary Packaging Managers, Fleet Managers, HR Managers and their teams.

Our 2025 FBT training is designed for SME’s, Corporates, Not for Profits & Charities, Local, State & Federal Government and Accounting firms.

Registration commences at 8.30am with coffee / tea. The Workshops commence at 9am and concludes by 4.30pm.

About our presenter – highly experienced FBT practitioner and FBT trainer 

Paul Mather – founder of FBT Solutions

With over 25 years hands on practical FBT Return and FBT Consulting experience, Paul has prepared, reviewed and lodged thousands of FBT returns – he has an incredible depth of practical and technical knowledge to share.

Paul regularly provides FBT & Salary Packaging training to Charities, NFP’s, Government, Accounting Firms, SME’s and Corporates.

Paul has delivered hundreds of FBT training sessions across all industry groups and in a variety of formats. Paul is a member of the ATO’s FBT Working Group and has plenty of ATO insight to also share.  

Paul looks forward to sharing his Practical and Technical FBT knowledge with you.

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