Does anyone have a recommendation for online tax returns apart from the ATO provided one.
What Is The Best Online Tax Refund Platform?
SpeedAU on 18/07/2023 - 15:26
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Whats wrong with the ATO one? It is free afterall.
What’s wrong with the ato standard online form?
Unless you want someone to sit down with you even virtually to recommend ‘creative’ ways to increase return/decrease liability- in which… go see an accountant?
A simple PAYG tax return on the official ATO site takes less than 5 minutes.
Mygov
ATO
What Is The Best Online Tax Refund Platform?
You're assuming you're getting a refund…
Mygov > ATO
They have made it so easy for individuals to do it on their own. I remember downloading a software from the ATO every year from 2005 onwards and that was a pain.
ATO is under mygov now
Its all online
" I remember downloading a software from the ATO every year from 2005"
eTax
Best thing about that was the ease of checking against previous years detail
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Turbo Tax and TaxAct are US-based only, no?
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ATO can't be beat. Takes me 10 minutes to complete each year. I don't miss the bad ole paper-based form. The pre-populated data is also getting better. What's there not to like?
MyGov/ATO.
It’s also better to wait until all your information has been pre-filled. I always wait until late Q3/early Q4 to do my tax return for that reason alone.
ended up using etax, i don't have a straight forward tax situation
Etax Accountants are ok , not very helpful really, but if you prefer to have an accountant look over it then give it a go, I think the fee is around $50 for employee or sole trader
Etax have most years been able to get me more than the estimate , probably through depreciation and other stuff. Also claimable the following year
Probably because submitting via an accountant — even if it's online buys you an extension until May. Also lower risk of an ATO compliance audit due to the fact that it's supposedly going to be checked, as part of their risk matrix.
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