{"title":"Fringe Benefits Tax","authors":"T. Delany","doi":"10.1017/9781009154444.019","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A‘fringe benefit’ is described as a benefit other than salary and wages accruing to a person because of an employment relationship. Taxation law assesses employees on cash payments of salary and wages and similar amounts received as a result of employment. However, prior \nto 1 July 1986, significant difficulty was encountered in assessing non-cash benefits provided to employees and even greater difficulty in assessing associates of employees on benefits received from employers. Fringe benefits tax (‘FBT’) was implemented from 1 July 1986 to combat this difficulty. This chapter provides a full analysis of the operation of fringe benefits tax to commercial transactions in Australia.","PeriodicalId":264865,"journal":{"name":"Foundations of Taxation Law 2022","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2012-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Foundations of Taxation Law 2022","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009154444.019","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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A‘fringe benefit’ is described as a benefit other than salary and wages accruing to a person because of an employment relationship. Taxation law assesses employees on cash payments of salary and wages and similar amounts received as a result of employment. However, prior
to 1 July 1986, significant difficulty was encountered in assessing non-cash benefits provided to employees and even greater difficulty in assessing associates of employees on benefits received from employers. Fringe benefits tax (‘FBT’) was implemented from 1 July 1986 to combat this difficulty. This chapter provides a full analysis of the operation of fringe benefits tax to commercial transactions in Australia.