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Fringe Benefits Tax Assessment Act 1986
31CMaintaining a home in Australia
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#### 31C Maintaining a home in Australia
The employee satisfies this section if:
(a) the place in Australia where the employee usually resides when in Australia:
(i) is a unit of accommodation in which the employee or the employee’s spouse has an ownership interest (within the meaning of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997); and
(ii) continues to be available for the employee’s immediate use and enjoyment during the period that the duties of that employment require the employee to live away from it; and
(b) it is reasonable to expect that the employee will resume living at that place when that period ends.