Karen, just a quick query here.
Whilst I am currently employed by the NSW government, I am also involved with the taxi industry in a country area, being the owner of the taxi plates. Once you get outside of Sydney you have an entirely different taxi industry compared to capital city areas.
An example of this is that there are regular calls made to the taxi company asking for a case of grog to be delivered, or a packet of fags, or the local chinese or pizza places wanting something delivered. The situation is that the driver will pay for the goods, and collect the cash back at the other end, plus the delivery fee (of course).
Now what a LOT of drivers will do is pay for those goods on their credit cards. I know on the one shift per week that I do in the cab, I can easily put around $600 or so on the card, thereby getting me 600 QF FF points. Not an issue for me, but if I was to work 6 shifts per week it might become an issue.
Can you see any tax implications here?
Dave