Salary Packaging

Salary Packaging FBT & Tax Management

FBT management in Catch-e's salary packaging software covers the statutory, operating-cost and New Zealand methods, ECM and exempt or rebatable treatment, not-for-profit cap categories and employee declarations.

  1. FBT methods
  2. ECM & status
  3. Caps
  4. Declarations
  5. Tracking

Why teams choose Catch-e

One system of record

Fleet, novated leasing and salary packaging on a single platform, no stitched-together tools.

Compliance built in

ATO-aligned FBT governance and audit trails on every contract, quote and payment.

Proven at scale

92,078+ active contracts, 20+ years in production and 99.96% platform uptime.

Fits your stack

Integrates with payroll, banking, accounting and servicing, and hosted in Australia.

FBT methods

Fringe Benefits Tax, calculated automatically

Calculate FBT using the statutory, operating-cost and New Zealand methods, so the right method applies to each benefit and jurisdiction.

  • Statutory formula method
  • Operating-cost method
  • New Zealand FBT method
  • Correct method applied per benefit
FBT calculation methodPER BENEFIT
Method applied
Statutory formula
AU · default
APPLIED
Operating cost
AU · logbook
New Zealand
NZ jurisdiction
Base value$32,940
Statutory rate20%
Taxable value$6,588
Right method
PER JURISDICTION
ECM & status

ECM and exempt/rebatable treatment

Apply the Employee Contribution Method to reduce FBT, and handle exempt and rebatable treatment, including recognition of the employer’s not-for-profit FBT status.

  • Employee Contribution Method (ECM)
  • Exempt and rebatable treatment
  • Not-for-profit concessional and rebatable status
  • FBT reduced correctly per employer
ECM & employer statusREBATABLE
Employee Contribution Method
Taxable value (base)$6,588
Post-tax contribution$6,588
Employer statusRebatable
FBT after ECM$0
FBT REDUCED BY ECM100% OFFSET
EXEMPT / REBATABLENFP STATUSECM ON
Concessional
NOT-FOR-PROFIT
Caps

The right FBT cap for every employer

Classify benefit items by cap category, primary and meal-entertainment, so concessional caps are monitored against the right buckets for each employee.

  • Primary cap classification
  • Meal-entertainment cap classification
  • Concessional caps monitored per employee
  • Aligned to not-for-profit status
Cap-category classificationMONITORED
Concessional caps · per employee
Primary cap$9,400 / $15,900
Meal-entertainment$980 / $2,650
PRIMARYMEAL-ENT.NFP ALIGNED
59%
OF PRIMARY CAP
Declarations

Employee FBT declarations

Capture the employee FBT declarations required to substantiate benefits, kept against each employee’s record.

  • Employee FBT declarations captured
  • Substantiation held on record
  • Linked to the relevant benefits
  • Ready for audit
Employee FBT declarations3 / 3 HELD
Substantiation on record
Declaration signed
Employee · 04 Apr
Linked to benefit
Living expenses
Held on record
Audit-ready
SUBSTANTIATEDAUDIT-READY
Declaration
SIGNED · LINKED
Tracking

Per-employee FBT tracking and year-end

Track a per-employee, per-year FBT balance throughout the year and produce year-end reporting when the FBT year closes.

  • Per-employee, per-year FBT balance
  • Live tracking through the year
  • Year-end FBT reporting
  • A traceable FBT history
Per-employee FBT trackingFY26 · LIVE
GROSSED-UP BALANCE
$11,772
TRACKING
Accrual through the year
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
Year-end FBT report31 Mar
Year-end
TRACEABLE HISTORY

Ready to administer packaging at scale?

Running many employers, each with their own rules and payroll, is where salary packaging gets hard. Catch-e governs all of it from one system of record.

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