Uber / Rideshare Driver Profit & Tax Calculator (FY2025-26)

About this calculator

Rideshare is the one gig where GST starts at your very first dollar. Most small businesses only register for GST once turnover passes $75,000, but the ATO treats ride-sourcing — Uber, DiDi, Ola and Bolt — as taxi travel, and taxi travel must be registered for GST from the first fare. That means 1/11th of every gross fare is GST you collect on behalf of the ATO, not income you keep, and you lodge a Business Activity Statement (BAS) each quarter. Food-delivery-only work such as Uber Eats, DoorDash or Menulog is different — it follows the ordinary $75,000 threshold. The calculator strips the GST out of your fares first, so the income figure it taxes is the GST-exclusive amount the ATO actually assesses.

The number Uber shows you is gross fares. Your taxable profit is what's left after the platform service fee (often around 27.5%), your GST, and your genuine running costs — fuel, servicing, tyres, insurance, registration, depreciation, phone and cleaning. The calculator estimates your vehicle running cost using the ATO per-kilometre benchmark of $0.88/km as a full-cost proxy, then subtracts the platform fee and your other work costs to show an estimated annual profit. Because your driving profit stacks on top of any other income you earn, it's taxed at your marginal rate — which is why the calculator asks for your other income, so the income tax on your driving is attributed fairly.

There are two ways to claim your car, and the right one depends on how far you drive. The cents-per-km method is simple — you claim a flat $0.88 for each work kilometre — but it's capped at 5,000 work kilometres a year, or $4,400. Most full-time rideshare drivers pass 5,000 km within a few months, so the cap leaves a lot of genuine cost unclaimed. The logbook method has no distance cap: you keep a representative 12-week logbook once to establish your work-use percentage, then claim that percentage of every actual car expense, including depreciation. For high-kilometre drivers the logbook method usually reflects far more of their real costs — the trade-off is the record-keeping. This calculator's vehicle estimate applies the per-km benchmark across all your kilometres as a planning proxy, which sits closer to a logbook outcome than the capped cents-per-km claim.

This is an estimator, not a tax return. It applies the FY2025-26 resident tax rates including the 2% Medicare levy, assumes you're an Australian tax resident with no private-health surcharge, and models GST at the standard 1/11th of fares. It doesn't know your exact expenses, your logbook percentage, the GST credits you'll claim back on fuel and servicing at BAS time, or offsets specific to your situation — all of which change the final numbers. Treat the output as a planning guide and confirm your position with a registered tax agent before you lodge.