🧳 Occupation guide

Travel agent tax deductions: what you can claim

What you can claim, what you cannot, and the records the ATO expects. Written in plain English and updated for the 2025–26 financial year.

Oscar says"Industry familiarisation trips (partially), self-education, phone, professional memberships. Scan the receipt the day you get it and June takes care of itself."

What you can claim

Professional memberships (AFTA, CLIA).
Familiarisation trips — only the work-related portion, must be able to demonstrate connection to selling that destination.
Self-education (destination training, supplier courses).
Phone — work portion.

What you cannot claim

Personal travel.
Home to office.
Accommodation on fam trips if personal component.

Apportionment: the part most people get wrong

Fam trips with personal component — work proportion only. If an expense is part work and part personal, you claim the work percentage only, and the ATO expects you to show how you worked it out.

Records you need to keep

Receipts, training completion certificates, employer justification for fam trip. A claim without a receipt or tax invoice behind it is a claim you may have to repay if the ATO asks.

Common questions

What records do I need to keep?

Receipts, training completion certificates, employer justification for fam trip. Keep them for five years from when you lodge.

How do I split work and personal use?

Fam trips with personal component — work proportion only. Claim the work proportion only.

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