Individuals
We have several initiatives underway for individuals, including making individual tax returns faster and easier and helping to link people to their lost superannuation.
Our online income tax return program, e-tax, is gaining even more popularity. In 2007-08, we saw a 20% increase in lodgments, with more than 70% of people using the pre-filling option.
Over the last few years we have been working on expanding e-tax's pre-filling service to make it easier for you to meet your obligations and claim your entitlements. Now, there is more information available, such as PAYG summary data (salary and wages and superannuation payments), interest and dividend information, private health insurance policy details, Medicare levy surcharges, HELP debt balances and interest charges.
In addition to the existing suite of information, from July 2009 we will also include PAYG payment summaries that are lodged on paper, PAYG income tax instalment amounts and additional compliance reminders. We'll continue working with third parties to increase the amount of information available through pre-filling.
Given e-tax's popularity, we're helping more people make the move to lodging online. We'll also continue to support people who can't complete their tax online by providing ready access to the TaxPack. Our research has shown us that we can improve the structure and language of this publication, so we plan to release a new, simpler TaxPack in July 2009.
We're developing an online calculator to help individuals find out if their employer is paying the correct superannuation guarantee contribution and have provided an online calculator to help individuals estimate their co-contributions entitlements. We're also making it easier for individuals to find and access their lost superannuation.
From June 2009, we will provide a web-based tool designed to work with our existing lost superannuation search functionality. The tool will help individuals to transfer their superannuation by automatically preparing a form they can send to their funds to have their lost superannuation transferred and consolidated into other superannuation accounts.
We're contributing to the whole-of-government initiative to enhance the australia.gov.au website so that it provides individuals with simple, convenient access to government information and services.
Case study
Making tax time easier with e-tax
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Last Modified: Friday, 7 June 2013