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What is TaxPack?

TaxPack is a print publication designed to help you to complete your individual income tax return. TaxPack is divided into two parts:

To find out your options on completing and lodging your tax return read How do I lodge my tax return?

For information about whether you need to lodge a tax return, read:

TaxPack 2009 and TaxPack 2009 supplement are available:

  • at most newsagents from 1 July to 31 October 2009
  • at our shopfronts, or
  • by downloading below or ordering online.

e-tax 2009 CD project

For Tax Time 2009, deliveries of TaxPack and TaxPack supplement packages to Northern Territory, South Australia, Queensland and Tasmania will be replaced with an e-tax 2009 CD mail pack. The CD will contain the e-tax 2009 software which can be easily installed onto a personal computer to prepare your tax return and then lodge online.

E-tax from the Tax Office is the free tax return preparation software that ensures most refunds are issued in 14 days. By using encryption technology, e-tax ensures your details are secure during transmission over the internet. e-tax asks you simple questions to help you work through the answers to complete your tax return, and has calculators to help you get it right.

E-tax gives you access to your individual information using the pre-filling service. You can download details of your income including salary and wages, government payments, interest and dividends and have e-tax pre-fill that information straight into your return. Pre-filling Information will be progressively available from July with most information available by mid August. You can also register for the alerts service in e-tax and we will let you know when more of your information becomes available.

For more information or assistance with e-tax or the pre-filing service, go to E-tax essentials

Download TaxPack and forms

TaxPack

TaxPack supplement

Short tax return

Tax return forms and schedules

Last Modified: Saturday, 13 February 2010

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