TaxPack is a print publication designed to help you to complete your individual income tax return. TaxPack is divided into two parts:
- TaxPack 2006 with the 2006 tax return for individuals
- TaxPack 2006 supplement with the 2006 tax return for individuals (supplementary section).
If you are an Australian resident and a retiree, you may be eligible to use Retirees TaxPack 2006.
Your options on completing and lodging your tax return read Guide to lodging your tax return.
Do I need the TaxPack 2006 supplement?
Can I use the Retirees TaxPack 2006?
TaxPack 2006 information
While TaxPack is designed to help individuals complete their income tax returns, many people also use it as a basic reference to the Australian tax system. The information in TaxPack has been rewritten into a series of web pages and published across this site.
You can search or browse the site to find general information about:
- income you must declare
- deductions and tax offsets you are entitled to claim, and
- tax rates and calculations.
If you would prefer to download TaxPack 2006 in Portable Document Format (PDF), refer to the list of download files.
Do I need the TaxPack 2006 supplement?
The majority of taxpayers can lodge their returns using TaxPack 2006 alone. You will also require the TaxPack 2006 supplement if you have:
- income or a loss from
- a partnership or trust
- personal services income
- a business
- a deferred non-commercial business loss
- a net farm management deposit or withdrawal
- a capital gain
- a foreign entity
- rent
- a bonus from a life insurance company or friendly society
- foreign sources, or foreign assets or property
- certain other income, such as scholarships, royalties and benefits from an employee share scheme
- deductions for
- project pool
- investment in the Australian film industry
- undeducted purchase price of a foreign pension or annuity
- non-employer sponsored superannuation contributions
- certain other deductions, such as election expenses, sickness and accident insurance premiums, and foreign exchange losses
- tax offsets for
- superannuation contributions on behalf of your spouse
- zone or overseas forces
- net medical expenses over a specified limit
- parent, spouse's parent or invalid relative
- landcare and water facility
- people in the simplified tax system (STS) or people who received a distribution from a partnership or trust that was in the STS
- heritage conservation work
- interest from the land transport facilities tax offset scheme or infrastructure borrowings scheme
- work or services performed in the Joint Petroleum Development Area of the Timor Sea
- credit for early payments or overpayments of tax
- adjustments for amounts on which family trust distribution tax has been paid.
Note: If you are using TaxPack 2006 supplement, you must also use TaxPack 2006 to complete all of your tax return.
Can I use Retirees TaxPack 2006?
You are eligible to use Retirees TaxPack 2006 to fill in your tax return if:
- you were an Australian resident for tax purposes from 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006, and
- you had no dependants other than a spouse during the period 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006, and
- all of your tax affairs are covered by the questions in Retirees TaxPack 2006 as listed below
- income
- Commonwealth of Australia government pensions and allowances
- dividends - not including distributions made by a corporate limited partnership and deemed dividends from a private company
- foreign source pension or annuity income
- gross interest
- other Australian pensions or annuities - including superannuation pensions
- salary, wages, allowances, earnings etc
- total reportable fringe benefits amounts
- capital gains - not including distributions of capital gains by a trust or managed investment fund
- deductions
- cost of managing tax affairs
- deductible amount of undeducted purchase price of an Australian pension or annuity
- deductible amount of undeducted purchase price of a foreign pension or annuity
- subscriptions
- gifts or donations
- interest and dividend deductions
- tax offsets
- senior Australians
- pensioner
- spouse - married or de facto
- superannuation annuity and pension
- private health insurance
- net medical expenses over a specified limit
- private health insurance policy details
- Medicare levy related items
- income
If you plan to claim the family tax benefit (FTB) through the tax system, you cannot use Retirees TaxPack; you will need to get TaxPack 2006.
Note:
FTB can be claimed with short tax return too - but only lodged using paper and not phone.
What if I can't read standard print?
Vision Australia produces free tapes and compact disks of TaxPack 2006, TaxPack 2006 supplement, and Retirees TaxPack 2006 for people with a vision impairment.
To obtain a copy, phone Freecall 1800 644 885. Your tax questions cannot be answered on this number.