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The ATO have introduced a new Deductions schedule (DDCTNS) attached to a 2019 Individual tax return. If you're a claiming deductions in a 2019 individual tax return, you'll need to enter the details of the deduction as a line entry(granular) in this new DDCTNS schedule. This is a mandatory schedule for all 2019 Individual tax return where you're claiming a deduction.

 

Changes in Tax

In a 2019 Individual tax return, we've created a new Deduction schedule(DDCTNS). You'll notice that we've removed some worksheets and made changes to other worksheets to integrate to the new DDCTNS schedule.

There are also changes to the way you enter data in the deductions label.

  • To enter data in any deduction label, you'll need to use the DDCTNS schedule or any supporting worksheets which will integrate to the DDCTNS schedule.
  • There is a limit on the maximum allowable records (line entries) for each deduction label.

Go to Using the DDCTNS in Tax to read about the data entry in the DDCTNS schedule.

 

When do I need a DDCTNS schedule?

If you're claiming a deduction in any of the labels below, you'll need to complete a DDCTNS schedule.

D1 - Work Related Car Deductions

D2 - Work Related Travel Expenses

D3 - Work Related Clothing, Laundry and Dry Cleaning Expenses

D4 - Work Related Self Education Expenses

D5 - Other Work-Related Expenses

D6 - Low Value Pool Deduction

D7 - Interest deductions

D8 Dividend Deductions

D9 Gifts or Donations

D10 Cost of Managing Tax Affairs

D12 Personal Superannuation Contributions

D13 Deduction for Project Pool

D14 Forestry managed investment scheme deduction

D15 Other Deductions

D11 - Deductible Amount of Undeducted Purchase Price of a Foreign Pension or Annuity is not part of the deductions schedule. Since each foreign pension has their own amount of Undeducted Purchase Price(UPP) and total amounts will show in D11, a DDCTNS schedule is not required. The ATO are looking at making some changes for this label in the future.

How do I fill in the new DDCTNS schedule?

Accessing the DDCTNS schedule

Within a 2019 Individual Tax return:

From the Preparation > Schedule

Under ATO Schedules on the left side.

Entering data in the DDCTNS schedule

You'll no longer be able to enter data directly into the deduction labels. Depending on the deduction item, you'll need to use the new DDCTNS schedule or any supporting worksheets. Each of the supporting worksheets are integrated to the new DDCTNS schedule to help you report it to the ATO.

When you click on any of the deduction labels, you'll see either

  • the DDCTNS schedule or
  • the supporting worksheets like motor vehicle worksheet(mve) or depreciation worksheets which will then integrate to the DDCTNS schedule.

You can see additional repeating fields in the schedule to record the individual descriptions and amounts.

The table shows a comparison data entry in 2018 and 2019 and the maximum allowable records in each deduction label.

Deduction item2018: Schedule/worksheet at the label for data entry2019: Schedule/worksheet at the label for data entryMaximum number of records

D1 - Work related car expenses

For more than 10 deduction items, enter the first 9 items and consolidate the additional items and their values into one item.

Motor Vehicle Expenses(mve)Motor Vehicle Expenses(mve)10
D2 - Work related travel expensesWork related travel expenses dissection gridDDCTNS20
D3 - Work related uniform, occupation specific or protective clothing, laundry and dry cleaningGeneric schedule 2018DDCTNS20
D4 - Work related self-education expensesWork related self-education expenses worksheet (sed)Work related self-education expenses worksheet(sed)20
D5 - Other work related expensesOther work related travel expenses dissection gridOther Work related expense(pwe)
(This is pre-fill data from the ATO)
50
D6 - Low value pool deductionsDepreciation worksheet or directly entered value in the returnDDCTNS and Depreciation worksheetNot a repeatable group

D7 - Interest deductions

Interest deductions (idd)DDCTNS20
D8 - Dividend deductionsDividend deductions (ddd)DDCTNS20
D9 - Gift and donationsGift and donations (pgd)
(This is pre-fill data from the ATO)
Gift and donations (pgd)
(This is pre-fill data from the ATO)
20
D10 - Cost of managing tax affairsCost of Managing Tax affairs (cmt)Cost of Managing Tax affairs (cmt)20
D12 - Personal superannuation contributionsPersonal Superannuation contributions 2018 (psc)Personal Superannuation contributions 2019 (psc)25

D13 - Deductions for project pool

Depreciation worksheetDepreciation worksheet20

D14 - Forestry managed investment scheme deduction

Forestry managed investment scheme worksheet 2018 (fms)Forestry managed investment scheme worksheet 2019 (fms)20
D15 - Other deductions

Label E - Enter the value directly in the return

Label J - Other Deductions (ode)

Label E - DDCTNS

Label J - Other Deductions (ode)

100
Example data entry

Data entry from the DDCTNS schedule

Item D7 - Interest Deductions

  1. Click Label I to open the DDCTNS schedule.
  2. Scroll down to D7 Interest deductions and complete the description and the amount field.
  3. If you want to add more items, click the icon located near the Return properties.

    If is greyed out, make sure the cursor is on the last data entry field.

  4. Complete depreciation schedule or motor vehicle schedules if required.
  5. The amount at D7 total will show in the body of the tax return and the details in the DDCTNS schedule will be lodged with the tax return.

Data entry from the supporting schedules

Item D5 - Other work related expenses

  1. Click Label E to open the Other Work Related Expenses worksheet.
  2. Enter the Description and Amount for all the items and close out of the worksheet.

  3. Open DDCTNS schedule and you'll see the items from the Other Work Related Expenses worksheet listed at Label D5.
  4. The amount at D5 total will show in the body of the tax return and the details in the DDCTNS schedule will be lodged with the tax return.

Rolling over deductions from 2018 to 2019

To implement the DDCTNS schedule, we've made structural changes to the software and replaced some of the worksheets and dissection grids. Hence, the existing deductions schedule from 2018 will not rollover into 2019.

Tax office copy PDF

There is no Tax office copy pdf of the DDCTNS schedule.

 
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