Pre-filling service - e-tax

Why should you use pre-filling?

The benefits for you

• Pre-filling makes completing your e-tax return easier and more accurate.
• Pre-filling downloads information to partially complete your e-tax return for you, ready for you to review.
• Most information goes directly to the correct items on your e-tax return, so you don't have to work out where to put it.
• Other useful information is downloaded into a summary for you to review to help remind you about amounts you may need to declare or claim on your e-tax return.
• Provided you resolve any discrepancies between your records and what is pre-filled, you know the income on your e-tax return matches what we have on our records.
• You have the convenience of access to the pre-filling service 24 hours a day, seven days a week (during the period e-tax is available).
• You can identify lost or forgotten records, such as lost bank statements and payment summaries sent to previous addresses.
• If all your information does not download you can simply add in any missing details or register for the alerts service in e-tax and we will let you know when your information is available.

The benefits for us

• There will be fewer discrepancies for us to follow up because the information is correctly entered on your e-tax return.
• There will be fewer amendments for us to process because you can confirm that the information you have and the information from third-party providers is correct.

This means cost savings for the entire community.

Sections within Questions and answers

• Why should you use pre-filling?
• How do you use the pre-filling service?
• What information can be pre-filled?
• Where is your pre-filling information?
• What if the pre-filled information is wrong?
• Can you rely on pre-filling for lost records?
• How do you subscribe for pre-filling alerts?