What is your offset?
Enter your annual income details and ride price to get an estimate of your potential cost offset.
Disclaimer: This estimator illustrates the potential impact on take-home pay from Workride, which includes factors like yearly income, Kiwisaver, Student loan, and the Quoted Ride Price. Please note that individual circumstances, such as specific tax obligations and employer schemes, may alter these benefits. This illustration should not be seen as a guarantee of offset. Neither Workride nor its partners bear responsibility for any financial loss or damage stemming from reliance on this information. For advice tailored to your unique situation, we recommend consulting with an independent financial advisor.Your salary sacrifice is $3500 pre-tax, which is equivalent to $67/week pre-tax.
Your take home pay impact over 12-months will be $2291 total which is equivalent to $44/week.
This is a cost offset of -$1209 (35% off) from the quoted ride price when using Workride.
Disclaimer: This estimator illustrates the potential impact on take-home pay from Workride, which includes factors like yearly income, Kiwisaver, Student loan, and the Quoted Price. Please note that individual circumstances, such as specific tax obligations and employer schemes, may alter these benefits. This illustration should not be seen as a guarantee of offset. Neither Workride nor its partners bear responsibility for any financial loss or damage stemming from reliance on this information. For advice tailored to your unique situation, we recommend consulting with an independent financial advisor.
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By choosing a new ride through Workride, you're essentially swapping out taxed income for a new ride. The cost of the ride is taken from your pre-tax salary, which lowers your taxable income. With a lower taxable income, you pay less in income tax (PAYE) and ACC Levy, creating tax savings for you.
Instead of paying tax, and then buying a ride with what's left, we help you remove the tax step altogether meaning a lower cost to you!
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The "Workride Offset" breaks down into two main components: tax savings and the smart use of your income. When you join the Workride scheme, you sacrifice a portion of your pre-tax salary for your chosen ride. This action reduces your taxable income, so you end up paying less tax overall. Furthermore, a portion of the money that used to go towards other commitments, like KiwiSaver or student loans, is now assisting in covering the cost of your ride. Together, these factors create a sensation of getting a significant discount on your ride's retail price, making the whole process feel much lighter on your wallet. This combined benefit is what we term the Workride Cost Offset.
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The 'Quoted Ride Price' is the amount Workride pays for your chosen ride from our retail partners, key to initiating your lease (Eg. Cost the equipment). To ensure the sustainable offering of all rides, a surcharge of up to 5% may be added by retailers to the in-store price when selling to Workride. This approach, at the retailer's discretion, is mainly applied to sale or clearance items, helping maintain a viable and beneficial relationship with all our retail partners and ensuring a wide selection of equipment is available under the Workride scheme. Check with your selected retailer if a surcharge is to be included in the quoted price.
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The term 'Annual Income' refers to the sum of all earnings an individual receives over a year from various sources. This comprehensive total includes wages from primary and secondary employment, as well as any other sources of taxable income reported to the Inland Revenue. For a detailed assessment tailored to your unique financial situation, consulting with your employer or seeking guidance from an independent financial advisor is advisable.
worked example.
Workride operates on a "salary sacrifice" model, where employees opt to reduce their pre-tax salary to lease a bike or scooter. In addition to the tax savings, a small proportion of other contributions like student loans or Kiwisaver may also be redirected towards the ride, depending on its value. At the end of the lease term, employees have the option to receive a gift of the ride equipment from Workride. For example, an employee with a $80,000 salary, 4% Kiwisaver, and Student loan, chooses a Trek Powerfly FS valued at $6380, but it’s on sale in-store at $5200.
Through Workride, they sacrifice $100 pre-tax and their weekly take-home pay impact is only reduced by $49, totalling an annual net contribution of only $2572 towards the ride. This arrangement benefits both the employee and employer, offering tax savings and financial flexibility.