You can claim vehicle expenses on your taxes, for journeys made for work-related purposes, other than the actual commute between home and work.
You can’t claim tax concessions for the costs of driving between home and work, no matter how long the commute is. However, other work-related journeys do count as tax-deductible expenses.
If your place of work is spread across more than one site, then driving between these sites is a tax-deductible expense – as long as none of the sites is also your home. So driving from your usual worksite, to a different site, then back to your usual place of work, are all counted as vehicle expenses that can be claimed for tax concessions.
Tax accountants can help identify other tax-deductible expenses, such as driving to pick up equipment for work and driving to meetings, conferences and other events that aren’t at your usual place of work.
Finally, expenses can only be claimed once. This means that you can’t claim vehicle expenses as a tactic for how to reduce tax, if the journey or the costs have already been reimbursed by your employer.