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Various rates, calculators & tools available for businesses
ABN entitlement tool (individuals/sole traders)
This decision tool is designed to assist individuals and sole traders to determine whether they are entitled to register for an ABN.
Building and construction industry - employee/contractor decision tool
Businesses in the building and construction industry can use this tool to determine whether a worker is an employee or contractor. It will give you a decision based on your answers to some questions.
Business viability assessment tool
Use our business viability assessment tool to determine whether a business is viable.
Division 7A calculator and decision tool
Determine if a direct transaction by a private company to a shareholder or their associate will be deemed a dividend under Division 7A, and calculate the minimum yearly repayment required on a loan to avoid a deemed dividend arising under Division 7A.
Employee/contractor decision tool
Businesses can use this tool to determine whether a worker is an employee or contractor. It will give you a decision based on your answers to some questions.
Fuel tax credit eligibility tool
This decision tool is designed to help you work out if the fuel you use in your business is eligible for fuel tax credits.
GST food classification decision tool
This decision tool will ask you a series of questions to help you determine whether a food or beverage is GST-free or taxable. NAT 73129.
Your small business tax calendar
Your small business tax calendar is an easy-to-use computer tool that will help you plan and manage your tax obligations.
Baby bonus calculator
This calculator estimates the baby bonus tax offset claimed through the ATO for a child who was aged under 5 on 1 July 2009 and was born on or after 1 July 2001 and before 1 July 2004.
Beneficiary tax offset calculator
This calculator will help you work out your beneficiary tax offset. The beneficiary tax offset is available to taxpayers who receive certain Centrelink benefits and Commonwealth education allowances. This calculator is available for the for the 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12 income years.
Comprehensive tax calculator
This calculator will help you work out your tax refund or debt on a given taxable income for the 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12 income years.
Decline in value calculator
Provides reports of decline in value calculations. This includes disposal calculations, and comparisons between the prime cost and diminishing value methods of calculating deductions for decline in value.
Division 7A calculator and decision tool
Determine if a direct transaction by a private company to a shareholder or their associate will be deemed a dividend under Division 7A, and calculate the minimum yearly repayment required on a loan to avoid a deemed dividend arising under Division 7A.
Foreign income conversion calculator
This calculator will assist you to translate (convert) foreign income into Australian dollars, using either a specific or an average rate of exchange for a range of countries. This calculator is available for the 2010-11 and 2011-12 income years.
HELP repayment calculator
This calculator will help you work out the amount of compulsory Higher Education Loan Program (HELP) repayment on assessment of your income tax return.
Higher Education Loan Program (HELP) voluntary repayment calculator
This calculator gives you an estimate of the bonus you will receive when you make a voluntary repayment towards your HELP debt, and the amount that will remain after your voluntary repayment has been applied.
Home office expenses calculator
This calculator will help you work out the deduction you can claim where a home office is used for income producing purposes. This calculator is available for the 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12 income years.
Is your scholarship taxable?
This calculator will help you work out whether or not your scholarship is taxable.
Low income tax offset calculator
This calculator will help you work out whether you are eligible for the low income tax offset. It also calculates the amount of your offset if your taxable income is less than the low income tax offset threshold. This calculator is available for the 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12 income years.
Medicare levy calculator
This calculator will help you work out your medicare levy, including any half or full exemptions, and reductions based on family income. This calculator is available for the 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12 income years.
Separate net income calculator
This calculator will help you work out the separate net income (SNI) of your dependant. Separate net income is defined as income and other specified amounts earned or received by your dependant, less expenses that are direct costs against that income.
SFSS repayment calculator
This calculator will help you work out the amount of compulsory SFSS repayment on assessment of your income tax return.
Simple tax calculator
This calculator will help you work out the tax you owe on your taxable income for the 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12 income years.
Work related car expenses calculator
This calculator will help you work out all four methods of work related car expenses.
Work related uniform expenses calculator
Calculates the deduction for work-related uniforms, clothing, laundry and dry cleaning expenses.
Zone or overseas forces tax offset calculator
This calculator will help you work out your eligibility for the zone or overseas forces tax offset and calculates the tax offset that you can claim. It also contains links to the Australian zone list and the overseas forces specified localities listing. This calculator is available for the 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12 income years.
CGT small business concessions tool
This tool will help tax agents to determine if an entity satisfies the basic conditions and is eligible for the capital gains tax (CGT) concessions that are available for small business.
Demergers calculator
This calculator helps shareholders work out the capital gains tax consequences under a demerger, including the BHP Billiton, CSR, Sonic Healthcare, Mincor, WMC and Mayne Group demergers.
Company tax rates
The Company tax rates from 2001-02 to 2011-12.
Division 7A - benchmark interest rates
For the purposes of Division 7A, the benchmark interest rate for an income year is the Indicator Lending Rates - Bank variable housing loans interest rate last published by the Reserve Bank of Australia before the start of the income year.
Household Assistance Package - tax reforms
Information about the tax reforms under the Household Assistance Package.
Individual income tax rates
Shows the percentage of tax payable for each income bracket, for individual Australian taxpayers, for the financial years 2011-12 and 2012-13.
Employee share schemes calculator
You can use this calculator to estimate the market value of unlisted rights and the discount received when an employee joins an employee share scheme.
Employment termination payment calculator
Use this calculator to work out the type of employment termination payment and calculate the withholding amount.
Employment termination payment calculator
Use this calculator to work out the type of employment termination payment and calculate the withholding amount.
Superannuation guarantee (SG) contributions calculator
Use this tool to calculate SG contributions for your eligible employees for a current quarter, including the period within 28 days after the end of that quarter.
Superannuation guarantee charge statement and calculator tool
Use this tool if you are late in paying your employees' superannuation contributions to a superannuation fund. It will enable you to calculate your SGC liability and prepare the SGC statement to be lodged with the ATO.
Superannuation guarantee eligibility decision tool
Use this decision tool if you have employees (including some contractors) to check their eligibility for super contributions.
Excise tariff working pages (including current duty rates) and by-laws
A link to the Excise tariff working pages (which includes the current excise duty rates, tariff item numbers, descriptions and definitions) and associated by-laws.
Fringe benefits tax - car calculator
The fringe benefits tax (FBT) car calculator helps employers calculate the taxable value of a car fringe benefit using either the statutory formula method or the operating cost method.
Fringe benefits tax - rates and thresholds
This information contains fringe benefits tax (FBT) rates and thresholds for the 2011-12 and 2012-13 FBT years.
Fuel tax credit calculator
The fuel tax credit calculator is an easy to use tool that calculates your fuel tax credit entitlements to be claimed on your business activity statement (BAS).
Fuel tax credit eligibility tool
This decision tool is designed to help you work out if the fuel you use in your business is eligible for fuel tax credits.
Fuel tax credit rates and eligible fuels
Provides details of eligible fuels and fuel tax credit rates.
GST property tool
The GST property tool is an interactive decision making tool designed to assist tax payers and tax agents understand GST implications for any property related transactions.
Interactive GST calculation worksheet for the BAS
This worksheet allows you to work out GST amounts for your BAS. Do not lodge the worksheet with your BAS. We recommend you file it with a copy of the BAS to which it relates. NAT 5107.
ABN entitlement tool (individuals/sole traders)
This decision tool is designed to assist individuals and sole traders to determine whether they are entitled to register for an ABN.
Baby bonus calculator
This calculator estimates the baby bonus tax offset claimed through the ATO for a child who was aged under 5 on 1 July 2009 and was born on or after 1 July 2001 and before 1 July 2004.
Beneficiary tax offset calculator
This calculator will help you work out your beneficiary tax offset. The beneficiary tax offset is available to taxpayers who receive certain Centrelink benefits and Commonwealth education allowances. This calculator is available for the for the 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12 income years.
Building and construction industry - employee/contractor decision tool
Businesses in the building and construction industry can use this tool to determine whether a worker is an employee or contractor. It will give you a decision based on your answers to some questions.
Business viability assessment tool
Use our business viability assessment tool to determine whether a business is viable.
CGT small business concessions tool
This tool will help tax agents to determine if an entity satisfies the basic conditions and is eligible for the capital gains tax (CGT) concessions that are available for small business.
Company tax rates
The Company tax rates from 2001-02 to 2011-12.
Comprehensive tax calculator
This calculator will help you work out your tax refund or debt on a given taxable income for the 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12 income years.
Decline in value calculator
Provides reports of decline in value calculations. This includes disposal calculations, and comparisons between the prime cost and diminishing value methods of calculating deductions for decline in value.
Demergers calculator
This calculator helps shareholders work out the capital gains tax consequences under a demerger, including the BHP Billiton, CSR, Sonic Healthcare, Mincor, WMC and Mayne Group demergers.
Division 7A - benchmark interest rates
For the purposes of Division 7A, the benchmark interest rate for an income year is the Indicator Lending Rates - Bank variable housing loans interest rate last published by the Reserve Bank of Australia before the start of the income year.
Division 7A calculator and decision tool
Determine if a direct transaction by a private company to a shareholder or their associate will be deemed a dividend under Division 7A, and calculate the minimum yearly repayment required on a loan to avoid a deemed dividend arising under Division 7A.
Employee share schemes calculator
You can use this calculator to estimate the market value of unlisted rights and the discount received when an employee joins an employee share scheme.
Employee/contractor decision tool
Businesses can use this tool to determine whether a worker is an employee or contractor. It will give you a decision based on your answers to some questions.
Employment termination payment calculator
Use this calculator to work out the type of employment termination payment and calculate the withholding amount.
Excise tariff working pages (including current duty rates) and by-laws
A link to the Excise tariff working pages (which includes the current excise duty rates, tariff item numbers, descriptions and definitions) and associated by-laws.
Foreign income conversion calculator
This calculator will assist you to translate (convert) foreign income into Australian dollars, using either a specific or an average rate of exchange for a range of countries. This calculator is available for the 2010-11 and 2011-12 income years.
Fringe benefits tax - car calculator
The fringe benefits tax (FBT) car calculator helps employers calculate the taxable value of a car fringe benefit using either the statutory formula method or the operating cost method.
Fringe benefits tax - rates and thresholds
This information contains fringe benefits tax (FBT) rates and thresholds for the 2011-12 and 2012-13 FBT years.
Fuel tax credit calculator
The fuel tax credit calculator is an easy to use tool that calculates your fuel tax credit entitlements to be claimed on your business activity statement (BAS).
Fuel tax credit eligibility tool
This decision tool is designed to help you work out if the fuel you use in your business is eligible for fuel tax credits.
Fuel tax credit rates and eligible fuels
Provides details of eligible fuels and fuel tax credit rates.
GST food classification decision tool
This decision tool will ask you a series of questions to help you determine whether a food or beverage is GST-free or taxable. NAT 73129.
GST property tool
The GST property tool is an interactive decision making tool designed to assist tax payers and tax agents understand GST implications for any property related transactions.
HELP repayment calculator
This calculator will help you work out the amount of compulsory Higher Education Loan Program (HELP) repayment on assessment of your income tax return.
Higher Education Loan Program (HELP) voluntary repayment calculator
This calculator gives you an estimate of the bonus you will receive when you make a voluntary repayment towards your HELP debt, and the amount that will remain after your voluntary repayment has been applied.
Home office expenses calculator
This calculator will help you work out the deduction you can claim where a home office is used for income producing purposes. This calculator is available for the 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12 income years.
Household Assistance Package - tax reforms
Information about the tax reforms under the Household Assistance Package.
Individual income tax rates
Shows the percentage of tax payable for each income bracket, for individual Australian taxpayers, for the financial years 2011-12 and 2012-13.
Interactive GST calculation worksheet for the BAS
This worksheet allows you to work out GST amounts for your BAS. Do not lodge the worksheet with your BAS. We recommend you file it with a copy of the BAS to which it relates. NAT 5107.
Is your scholarship taxable?
This calculator will help you work out whether or not your scholarship is taxable.
Low income tax offset calculator
This calculator will help you work out whether you are eligible for the low income tax offset. It also calculates the amount of your offset if your taxable income is less than the low income tax offset threshold. This calculator is available for the 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12 income years.
Medicare levy calculator
This calculator will help you work out your medicare levy, including any half or full exemptions, and reductions based on family income. This calculator is available for the 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12 income years.
Research and development tax incentive calculator 2012
This calculator assists you to calculate your R&D tax offset claim for the 2011-12 tax year.
Schedule 23 - Tax table for Joint Petroleum Development Area
For payments made on or after 1 July 2012. Use this table if you make payments to individuals for work or services performed in the Joint Petroleum Development Area (JPDA). NAT 7288
Separate net income calculator
This calculator will help you work out the separate net income (SNI) of your dependant. Separate net income is defined as income and other specified amounts earned or received by your dependant, less expenses that are direct costs against that income.
SFSS repayment calculator
This calculator will help you work out the amount of compulsory SFSS repayment on assessment of your income tax return.
Simple tax calculator
This calculator will help you work out the tax you owe on your taxable income for the 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12 income years.
Superannuation guarantee (SG) contributions calculator
Use this tool to calculate SG contributions for your eligible employees for a current quarter, including the period within 28 days after the end of that quarter.
Superannuation guarantee charge statement and calculator tool
Use this tool if you are late in paying your employees' superannuation contributions to a superannuation fund. It will enable you to calculate your SGC liability and prepare the SGC statement to be lodged with the ATO.
Superannuation guarantee eligibility decision tool
Use this decision tool if you have employees (including some contractors) to check their eligibility for super contributions.
Tax tables
This document provides a list of quick links to the pay as you go (PAYG) withholding tax tables for payments made from 1 July 2012.
Tax withheld calculator
If you are an employer or another withholding payer, the TWC helps you work out the tax you need to withhold from payments you make to employees and other workers.
Work related car expenses calculator
This calculator will help you work out all four methods of work related car expenses.
Work related uniform expenses calculator
Calculates the deduction for work-related uniforms, clothing, laundry and dry cleaning expenses.
Your small business tax calendar
Your small business tax calendar is an easy-to-use computer tool that will help you plan and manage your tax obligations.
Zone or overseas forces tax offset calculator
This calculator will help you work out your eligibility for the zone or overseas forces tax offset and calculates the tax offset that you can claim. It also contains links to the Australian zone list and the overseas forces specified localities listing. This calculator is available for the 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12 income years.
Research and development tax incentive calculator 2012
This calculator assists you to calculate your R&D tax offset claim for the 2011-12 tax year.
Schedule 23 - Tax table for Joint Petroleum Development Area
For payments made on or after 1 July 2012. Use this table if you make payments to individuals for work or services performed in the Joint Petroleum Development Area (JPDA). NAT 7288
Tax tables
This document provides a list of quick links to the pay as you go (PAYG) withholding tax tables for payments made from 1 July 2012.
Tax withheld calculator
If you are an employer or another withholding payer, the TWC helps you work out the tax you need to withhold from payments you make to employees and other workers.
 
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