Financial year 2025–26
Work from home
Start with the whole year. If the pattern changed partway through — a new job, a move to part time, a return-to-office mandate — split it into periods and give each one its own week count. Add the dates you were away; public holidays are already known. Both come off the total, and a holiday that fell during leave only comes off once.
Periods
Weeks is the length of the stretch, not the number of weeks you turned up — leave it at the full span and put the time away in the leave table below, or it comes off twice. Days per week is how many of those working days were spent at home: five days worked with one in the office is four.
| Period | Weeks | WFH days per week | Days | Remove |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 260 |
Leave
Annual leave, long service, unpaid breaks, time overseas. Enter the dates rather than trimming the week count above — weekends are ignored, and any public holiday inside a range is not deducted twice.
| Away | From | To | Weekdays | Remove |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No leave — the whole year was worked. | ||||
Public holidays
Taken from the calendar for 2025–26, weekends already dropped. Nothing to enter — they differ by state, so pick yours.
- AFL Grand Final FridayFri 26 Sep
- Melbourne CupTue 4 Nov
- Christmas DayThu 25 Dec
- Boxing DayFri 26 Dec
- New Year's DayThu 1 Jan
- Australia DayMon 26 Jan
- Labour DayMon 9 Mar
- Good FridayFri 3 Apr
- Easter MondayMon 6 Apr
- King's BirthdayMon 8 Jun
10 holidays
Total hours
260 worked − 10 days off = 250
ATO fixed rate, 2025–26
2,000 hrs × $0.70 per hour
How this was worked out
The year is one stretch of 52 weeks, five days a week at home — 260 days.
Ten public holidays in Victoria fall inside it, and no leave was taken.
Every one of those was a day that would otherwise have been worked at home, so 10 days come off. That leaves 250 days, which at eight hours a day is 2,000 hours.
Worth checking
- Public holiday dates come from a calendar, not from the ATO. A state holiday your employer did not observe, or a day your workplace closed that is not gazetted, needs handling by hand — adjust the week count for the period it fell in.
- The fixed rate needs a record of the actual hours worked from home across the whole year — a diary, roster or timesheet. An estimate or a representative four-week sample is not enough.
- Side-project days only count if the work was income-producing. If the project earned nothing and was not genuinely intended to, those days come out.