Oncore

Our Career Mobility service in Australia is unique as it fits directly within an Australian Tax Office benefit known as LAFHA, or the Living Away From Home Allowance. LAHFA can help your employees cover the additional costs of relocating and living away from their usual place of residence for employment.

LAFHA is provided through you as the employer and means your employees pay less tax which increases their take home pay. For example, an annual salary of $100,000 can mean an extra $9,400* per annum in additional take home pay with LAFHA applied. Not only does this reduce the financial stress of relocation for your employees, but it provides extra money to cover relocation costs and other out of pocket expenses. This makes LAFHA a great way to improve staff loyalty and improve the recruitment and retention of key personnel.

LAFHA offers many benefits:

• Boost Recruitment and Retention
• Build Staff Loyalty
• Become an Employer of Choice

* This example is based upon averaged amounts. Please note: Each individual’s circumstances are different and will therefore deliver different results.

We are industry experts who manage LAFHA across a wide number of companies and industries. We guarantee to maximise benefits to your employees with no cost to your company and will help you establish the necessary systems in your workplace, including setting up payment and scheduling requirements to ensure employees are paid accurately and on time. We will also keep your company up to date with latest legislative and compliance issues.

Our commitment to you:

• No additional workload for HR
• Minimal change for payroll
• No change to existing systems
• Full compliance with tax requirements
• Full compliance with immigration regulations
• No cost to you plus savings on employment
• No change to employee status

Frequently Asked Questions

To find out if any of your employees are eligible simply fill in the contact form on this website or call us on 1300 792 914. We can quickly let you know if your employees meet ATO’s criteria and give you an indication of the potential financial benefits. This is a no obligation, no cost service that will provide you with all the answers you need.

Eligible employees can include:

• Australian residents moving locations within Australia
• Overseas long stay visa holders
• Australians working overseas

LAFHA requires expert knowledge and management - and we are industry experts.

LAFHA involves complex regulations and compliance issues, and in some companies, there may not be the resources to effectively manage this service for eligible employees. That’s where we come in. The amount of variance per individual and per pay period can be significant; thus making LAFHA a time consuming and complicated process.

• Do you fully understand the legislation and compliance requirements (e.g. minimum salary levels)?
• Are you providing the full benefits to all your employees who qualify?
• Is it costing time and money to administer, and are you reliant on the knowledge and expertise of one or two key personnel?
• Do you manage your employees’ changing circumstances to maximise returns?

We have the expertise and experience to undertake this process for you, saving you time and resources. Through our unique service delivery, processes run through your existing payroll system so employee wages come directly from you, rather than from us.

LAFHA provides benefits not only to your employees but to your company as well.

We are industry experts who manage LAFHA across a wide number of companies and industries. We guarantee to maximise benefits to your employees with no cost to your company and will help you establish the necessary systems in your workplace, including setting up payment and scheduling requirements to ensure employees are paid accurately and on time. We will also keep your company up to date with latest legislative and compliance issues.