CBHS Corporate Health Insurance at tax time

Your Tax Statement shows:

• Your share (for taxation purposes) of the total health insurance premiums you paid to CBHS Corporate Health between 1 July 2018 and 30 June 2019 that are eligible for the Australian Government rebate on Private Health Insurance;
• The amount (if any) of Australian Government rebate you received; and
• The number of days you held an appropriate level of private patient hospital cover (if this is less than 365, you may need to pay the Medicare Levy Surcharge).

Your tax statement will help you or your tax agent to complete your tax return. If you lodge your tax return using myTax or lodge using a registered tax agent, your health insurance details should be pre-filled.

Statements are sent to each adult on your membership who has held private health insurance cover or paid a premium during the last financial year. If you have removed a partner or spouse throughout the financial year, they will receive their own tax statement. If CBHS Corporate Health does not have an address for them, it will be given to you to forward to them.

CBHS Corporate Health tax statements comply with the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) requirements. Due to a change in legislation we are now required to provide a tax statement to each main member and partner that was covered by a policy between 1 July 2018 and 30 June 2019.

To work out the amount of premiums each person paid on their tax statement, each payment is split in half based on who was covered on the policy at the time the premium was received.

Example 1:

Sarah and Matt pay their membership contribution of $100 each fortnight for 12 months. At the end of the year they have paid a combined amount of $2,600. They will each receive a tax statement showing an amount of $1,300.

Example 2:

Natalie and Luke were on a membership together from 1 July to 31 December 2018. On 1 January 2019 Natalie removed Luke and added new partner Nathan onto her membership. The contributions were $250 per month. In total, the membership had paid $3,000 in contributions.

The tax statement will split the contributions 50/50 based on the amount of money that was received whilst each partner was on the membership.

Natalie will receive one with $1,500, Luke with $750 and Nathan with $750.

CBHS Corporate Health is not required to issue tax statements to dependent children because they are not classified as “adults” under the PHI Act 2007.

A Single Parent membership will receive one tax statement.

You will receive two tax statements, each one with information from the different memberships.

The figures on your tax statement take into account health insurance premiums received by CBHS Corporate Health during the period 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019.

Please note: Payments made up to midnight on 30 June 2019 will be included on your 2018-19 tax statement.

Your tax statement will be available by 15 July 2019. If you elected to access your tax statements electronically, you will be advised via email when your statements are available online.

If you receive your correspondence via mail, we will have your tax statement sent out to you by 15 July 2019.

You can view your tax statement by logging on to the Member Centre.

If you receive your correspondence via mail, we will have your tax statement sent out to you by 15 July 2019.

Our Fund ID is 'CBC’.

You are able to print a financial year claims history from our Member Centre, or you can email CBHS Corporate Health at help@cbhscorp.com.au, or call us on 1300 586 462. It will also be uploaded to your correspondence history.

The Medicare Levy is a 2.0% levy payable on your taxable income which partly funds Medicare to provide a health care safety net for all Australians. There are various exemptions for those on lower incomes. For details, please visit the Australian taxation Office Medicare Levy Website.

The Medicare Levy Surcharge is designed to reduce the demand on the public Medicare system. The surcharge is levied on those individuals or families who were not covered by private health insurance for the whole year and have taxable incomes over the threshold in a given year. The base taxable income thresholds for the levy for 2018-19 is $90,000 per annum for singles and $180,000 per annum for couples, single parent families or families with one child. The income thresholds increase by $1,500 for each additional child after the first. The surcharge levy is applied at a tiered rate between 1% and 1.5%. For details, please visit the Australian Tax Office Medicare Levy Surcharge website.

Yes, you can manage your payments after logging into our Member Service Centre via the website and selecting the ‘Payment’ tab. You must make the payment before midnight 30 June 2019. Alternatively, you can contact our Member Care Centre on 1300 586 462 during our operating hours, Monday – Friday from 7am to 7pm.