Generally, you can claim deductions for car expenses if you own or lease the car you’re using. You can also claim deductions if you’re using your spouse or de-facto partner’s car. This is because the car is considered a joint asset.

You can only claim expenses directly related to your ride-sourcing business.

There are 2 different ways you can claim car expenses, the:

• cents per kilometre method
• logbook method.

You can only use one of these methods when calculating your car expenses.