Built for doctors, vets, nurses and other on-call professionals who travel for after-hours callouts and client or patient visits. Log trips as they happen, and this applies the current ATO cents-per-kilometre rate automatically for your tax return.
Your data stays in your own browser — nothing is uploaded anywhereEnter your own addresses and save once. The home–work distance only needs measuring a single time, since that route doesn't change.
Ordinary commuting between home and a regular workplace generally isn't deductible — the ATO carves out an exception for genuine emergency or on-call work outside normal rostered hours, which is what the callout log below is built for.
Home ↔ Work, using the fixed distance set above.
Work ↔ client or patient address, entered fresh each time since the destination varies.
Everything is saved automatically in this browser. Export regularly so records survive a browser reset, or hand a copy to your accountant.
A quick reference for anyone new to claiming work-related car expenses.
The cents-per-km rate is all-inclusive — fuel, rego, insurance, servicing, and depreciation are all bundled into that single per-kilometre figure. You can't claim any of these separately if you use this method; it's one or the other.
You can claim a maximum of 5,000 business kilometres per car under this method each financial year. If your genuine business travel goes higher than that regularly, the logbook method (which has no cap, but requires a 12-week logbook and tracking actual expenses) may claim more overall — worth comparing with your accountant if you're consistently over the cap.
This method doesn't require fuel or maintenance receipts, but the ATO does expect you to show how you worked out your business kilometres — a diary, calendar, or a log like this one showing dates, routes, and reasons for each trip.
Driving from home to your regular workplace and back is treated as private travel, not business travel, even if you're a professional who works odd hours. The recognised exception is genuine emergency or on-call travel outside your normal rostered hours — which is exactly what the callout log on this page is designed to capture separately from routine site or client visits.