Tax and compliance

Fringe Benefits Tax logbook and reporting

Get a more accurate FBT calculation for your mixed-use fleet vehicles - with a lower liability where personal use is genuinely limited, and a lot less time spent on year-end admin.

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Only pay tax for what's genuine personal use - and ditch the paper logs

When it comes to Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT) - you only want to be paying for genuine personal use - and no more.

Working out FBT on a mixed-use vehicle means proving how much of its use was business versus personal, and that's only as good as the logbook behind it.

With EROAD, drivers log trip type straight from the in-cab device as they drive, so the record is built in real time instead of reconstructed from memory at the end of the month.

The result: a more accurate FBT calculation, a lower liability where personal use is genuinely limited, and a lot less time spent on year-end admin.

Benefits

Why an electronic logbook makes FBT easier

Under the operating cost method, the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) expects a logbook to back up the business-use percentage you claim. The Ehubo2 keeps that logbook trip by trip, so the percentage comes from how each vehicle was actually used.

The ATO has confirmed, via Class Ruling 2023/19, that the FBT report generated using the Ehubo device can be used as an official record for Fringe Benefit Tax purposes.

Pay FBT on actual private use

The business-use percentage is worked out from trips drivers marked on the day. Where private use is genuinely limited, the bill comes down to match.

Your FBT report, ready to check

MyEROAD fills it in from your drivers' logbook entries. You look over the numbers and send it on. If the ATO ever questions a figure, the trips behind it are already on record.

Runs on the Ehubo2

It all runs on the unit in the cab, so there's no extra app for drivers and no phones or tablets to manage.

Less time on your FBT return

Nobody's working out the split by hand when the FBT return is due. The trips are already in MyEROAD, so putting it together takes far less time.

Features

How the FBT logbook works

Drivers capture trip purpose in the cab

They mark it right on the Ehubo2. Other details, including odometer readings and the date and time, are recorded without anyone writing them down.

Pick a representative 12-week period

MyEROAD supports the operating cost method. Headline figures show your business-use percentage and how many trips are still uncategorised, so you can keep an eye on the split before you settle on your weeks.

See whose logbook is incomplete

Most of the record keeps itself. The gaps are trips a driver hasn't marked, and scheduled reports flag them so you can follow up.

EROAD Ehubo in-cab device showing FBT trip type selection

MyEROAD Fringe Benefits Tax screen on a tablet

Office worker reviewing daily vehicle activity records

Fringe benefits tax product sheet PDF 208 KB , opens in a new tab

Paying FBT on shared fleet vehicles?

EROAD BookIt helps manage your shared fleet and it helps simplify FBT too.

Automatically detects likely FBT-eligible trips and prompts users to confirm
Tracks overnight activity to flag potential anomalies
Recognises locations like airports and hotels to auto-classify ineligible use
Identifies both under- and over-declared usage - for example, when a user expects to take a vehicle home, but it is returned to the office