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A stylish woman in a beige coat and jeans holds a large black handbag.

  • You must have paid for the item yourself;
  • You must need to carry items for work;
  • You must keep records for the purchase of the item and its use; and
  • You can only claim "work-related use" of the bag or case as a deduction.

"You can't claim a deduction for a bag you use for carrying personal items to work each day."

A man standing beside a timber desk puts a silver laptop into a brown leather bag.

  1. The cost of the asset (in this case the bag or case) must be $300 or less;
  2. The asset must be mainly used for work purposes (meaning more than 50 per cent of the time);
  3. To claim an immediate deduction, the asset must not be part of a set of assets costing more than $300;
  4. The asset can't be one of a number of items that are identical or substantially identical.

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