No employer fees. Minimal admin. A real benefit for your team.
A novated lease through Positive sits cleanly on top of your existing payroll. Your team get a real benefit. You get retention and an EVP that means something. We do the rest.
The three things we hear most.
We're too small.
False.
Businesses as small as three people offer this. You don't need a 'real' HR function — just a payroll process.
It'll create FBT headaches.
False.
We use the Employee Contribution Method (ECM) so your FBT exposure is exactly $0. We file the paperwork. You don't.
It'll mess with payroll.
False.
It's two extra lines per affected employee per fortnight. Most payroll managers integrate it in an afternoon.
The payroll mechanics, in 60 seconds.
Your employee signs a novation agreement with you and us. We invoice you fortnightly for the pre-tax deduction amount. You forward it. The ATO position is settled and documented. You never touch the finance contract or the car.
Honest division of labour.
What Positive handles
- Finance application & credit decision
- Vehicle procurement (any make/model)
- FBT calculation, lodgement & reporting
- Fuel card setup & administration
- Insurance, rego, servicing, tyres
- Quarterly reconciliations
- End-of-lease decisions with the employee
What you handle
- Sign the novation agreement (one-off, 5 minutes)
- Process two extra payroll lines per leased employee
- Forward our fortnightly invoice as a pre-tax deduction
- Tell us if an employee leaves (one email)
≈ 15 minutes of payroll time per leased employee per year, on average.
Why offer it.
Retention you can't engineer with a pay bump
A novated lease saves $200–$300/week in some cases. That's not a number you can match by giving someone a 3% raise.
EV transition, accelerated
If you've got a sustainability target, the FBT-exempt EV pathway is the easiest concrete action you can take this quarter.
EVP, but actual
'We pay your salary into your car' lands differently from another foosball table. Particularly with families and EV-curious staff.
No new line item on the P&L
It costs you nothing recurring. It just routes salary differently.
7 business days.
Sign novation agreement
30 min · CFO or operations lead
Payroll integration
1 short call with your payroll lead. Two payroll codes. Done.
Soft launch comms
We draft the all-staff email. You hit send.
First leases in flight
Employees can run quotes from day 6.
The serious credentials, briefly.
We’re members of NALSPA, registered with AFCA, hold a full FBAA licence, sit on the QGov SOA panel, and we’re an ATO-registered tax agent. All verifiable.
What our customers say
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