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The car parking rate report

One location, one FBT year, two independent surveys. You get the rate and everything behind it, in a form that sits straight into an FBT workpaper file.

Part one · the report

Rate determination

  • Opening rate and the station that set it
  • Closing rate and the station that set it
  • The average, calculated under s 39DA(3)
  • Every candidate station considered — including those rejected, with the reason
  • Routed distance from your car park entrance to each station entrance
  • An explicit finding where no liability arises
  • The authorities applied, and their status at the date of the report
Part two · the evidence pack

Substantiation

  • A dated capture for every rate — archived page, operator email, or file-noted call
  • Route maps showing the measured path and the distance
  • The s 39E arithmetic in full: fee, period, divisor, result
  • Come-and-go confirmation for any periodic rate relied on
  • The basis on which each facility was treated as a commercial parking station
  • Whether each rate remains publicly available at the date of the report
Report extract
LocationBenefit periodOpening rateOpening stationClosing rateClosing stationAverage
45 Kestrel Street, Milton QLD 01/04/25 – 31/03/26 $8.50casual all-day Quarry Street Open Air $9.20casual all-day Quarry Street Open Air $8.85
12 Ardenne Street, Woolloongabba QLD 01/04/25 – 31/03/26 $9.16monthly ÷ 19 bd Pacific Lane Car Park $8.55monthly ÷ 22 bd Pacific Lane Car Park $8.86
8 Mill Street, Regional QLD 01/04/25 – 31/03/26 No commercial parking station within a 1 km practicable radius charging above the statutory threshold Nil

Illustrative extract. Every location, car park and rate shown is invented, and no figure here is a determination for any client. The same worked example runs through the sample report.

First page of a sample car parking rate determination, watermarked as a sample
See the whole thing

Four pages: the determination above, every car park considered including the ones we rejected and why, the arithmetic behind each rate, and the basis for all of it.

Sample report (PDF)
Diagram: a phone call is upgraded the same day into a written confirmation, joined by an archived tariff capture and a route screenshot, with the s 39E arithmetic shown in full.
A phone call is the fastest route to a rate and the weakest artefact. Every one is upgraded into something dated that an auditor can check without contacting us.
Sourcing rates

Four sources, ranked by how well they hold up

We are explicit about where each rate came from, because the strength of the evidence is the strength of your position. A rate we could only obtain by phone is labelled as such.

STRONGEST

Archived tariff

The operator’s own published rates as they stood on the exact date, retrieved from a dated web archive.

Self-dating URL + timestamp

STRONG

Operator in writing

Permit and unpublished rates confirmed by the operator by email, including confirmation of the historical date.

Email held on file

SUPPORTING

Current publication

The live tariff board or rate page, captured and dated, corroborating rate stability across the period.

Screenshot + URL + capture date

FILE-NOTED

Operator by phone

Where nothing else exists. Always followed the same day by a written confirmation back to the operator.

File note: date, time, name

Pricing

Flat fee per location

Average cost report
$300 ex GST

One location, one FBT year. Opening and closing survey, full evidence pack, next business day.

Five or more locations
$240 ex GST each

For multi-site employers and accounting firms ordering across a client book.

Prior year review
POA

Reconstructing rates for a lodged year. More on prior years →

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