Salary Packaging Holiday Accommodation and Venue Hire
Planning a holiday or event? Salary package the cost!
You may be eligible to salary package the cost of your holiday accommodation or venue hire for a special event.
Who can package holiday accommodation and venue hire costs?
You can salary package holiday accommodation or venue hire costs if you work for a:
- private or public not-for-profit hospital
- charity or other not-for-profit organisation
and your employer offers this as part of your workplace benefits program.
Is there a limit to how much holiday accommodation and venue hire I can package?
Yes. Together with the meal entertainment benefit, you can package up to a cap limit of $2,650 each FBT year.
You may also decide to package venue hire alone. The cap limit of $2,650 still applies each FBT year.
The venue hire cap is in addition to the existing salary packaging cap limit for everyday living expenses (for example, mortgage or rent).
What can I package?
- holiday accommodation
- whether you're travelling locally or overseas, you can pay for the cost of your holiday accommodation using your pre-tax dollars
- venue hire
The accommodation or venue hire you salary package doesn’t have to be business related, is FBT-exempt, and is not included in your salary packaging cap limit - for everyday living expenses.
You could use pre-tax dollars to pay for the hire of a venue or other facilities for special celebrations such as weddings, birthdays or anniversaries for yourself, your spouse - or for your children. Please refer to our FAQ for more information,
You cannot claim food and beverages under this item. Please see meal entertainment for more information about salary packaging meals.
How to claim holiday accommodation and venue hire costs?
You can use the Meal Entertainment Maxxia Wallet to pay for venue hire and certain holiday accommodation expenses. However, you can’t use the Maxxia Wallet to pay for accommodation that includes flights or is purchased through an airfare booking provider. If you want to make a claim for your accommodation or venue hire after payment, you can submit your claim through My Maxxia (app or online) or our app.
If you don’t have the Venue Hire benefit already in your package, follow these steps to add it in:
- Log onto My Maxxia using the app or online portal.
- From your dashboard, scroll down to ’Add another benefit’, then select the ‘Meal Entertainment cap’ tab at the top of the screen.
- Click Venue Hire, and then ’Add this benefit’. From there, you can either update how your budget is split between Meal Entertainment and Venue Hire or set up a Venue Hire budget if you’re using this benefit for the first time
- Select ‘Calculate your fees’ to review the applicable fees . Depending on your current package set-up, the fees may change. If everything looks right, click ‘Review’, to go over your updates.
- If you’re happy with the changes, tick the ‘Declaration’ box at the bottom of the page to agree to the Terms and Conditions, then click ‘Submit.’
- You’ll then see a confirmation screen showing your update. To submit a claim, click the ’Start a claim’ button at the bottom of the screen.
- If you’d like to transfer funds from the Meal Entertainment Wallet Card to reimburse your claim, please click on ’Contact Us’, in settings, and select ’Submit Query’.
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