Claiming NDIS travel: kilometres, parking and tolls

The NDIS Pricing Arrangements and Price Limits 2025-26 (pages 21 to 23) let a provider negotiate a reasonable contribution from the participant towards the cost of travelling to deliver a face-to-face support. No 2026-27 edition has been published yet, so these are the current rules.

• Your own vehicle: up to $0.99 a kilometre. The rate you agree can be lower; the NDIA's own worked examples use lower rates.
• Tolls, parking and public transport for the trip there, up to the full amount.
• Which drives: from your usual place of work to the participant, between participants, and, within limits, back.
• When: only for supports that allow provider travel, and only with the participant's agreement before you travel.

• Driving the participant during the shift. Taking them shopping or to an appointment is activity based transport (Pricing Arrangements pages 28 to 30), claimed on its own item, and it exists for community participation and some capacity-building supports, not for self-care or household tasks.
• Driving for anything else. Training, picking up supplies or admin isn't claimable from a plan. It can still go in your own tax logbook.

Travel goes on its own line, on the provider travel item in the same group as the support you delivered, in kilometres, with where you drove from and to.

The rate follows the date you drove, like every other NDIS price. George puts the line on with your agreed rate, never above the limit for that day, and asks before billing a drive it noticed on its own. See how to invoice the NDIS.

How the two show up at tax time, together, is a question for your accountant.