I was wondering how many people have used e-tax.

If you live and work in Australia you have to lodge a tax return each year and for an individual taxpayer e-tax is the easiest and cheapest way to go.

You go to the tax office website and download the e-tax software

http://www.ato.gov.au/individuals/pa...pc=001/002/014

The e-tax software takes you through a yes/no interview and you put in the information required. At the end it tells you what your refund/liability is and when you have it all right you can then lodge the return.

I've been using it ever since it started and I'm a greatgrandma so anyone can do it.

i've used it every year since i first got here
my first contract had a tax agent as part of the deal... he was hopeless i got a better deal doing my own

I do hubbys evey year its a doddle.....infact I better get it done lol

Anyone know what things you can claim for as standard? I only found out last year (after already lodging my etax) that I can claim $300 for dry cleaning of uniform without needing receipts.

Any other gems that I should know about?

LJJ

I use it all the time, easy and straightforward.

depends what your job is, ie if you work outdoors you can claim sunglasses, hat, sunscreen etc.

You can claim bank charges that relate to having your wage paid in and subsequent withdrawals etc

If your work related claims come to more than $300 though you need to be able to produce receipts.

You can also claim for sat navs for the car.
donna

Hiya Gedge

Just looking at your new "location" ......... surely you don't have either of those things in Avalonia

Regards

Jim Jim

how did you find that one!!!!

$200 charitable donations

I've done my first return using etax, seems pretty simple and was easy to use.
I haven't lodged yet just incase I find something else to claim for.
On the tax website, there are booklets explaining what you can claim for in each industry, quite useful.

A friend has to use his car for travelling around for jobs and has just claimed.Im just crap at map reading,do you think they will take that as a need and make it tax deductable?No i will put it on OH and just make out he is crap on directions.

We've just done both of ours using e-tax - got $3800 back between us no problem.

We've only been here 9 months so that went some way to explain it but we claimed for 2 laptop computers used for work (depretiation), suncream, sunglasses, safety footware for me (I go on building sites) and the biggy - claiming km's for using your car for work. If you go to meetings/sites etc you can claim up to 5000km a year and they won't even bother to check. You claim around 60 odd cents a km for a 'normal' sized car engine. You can do the maths....

Graham

well we know what the others are like..........well mine is bloody useless!!!

eyup Jim Jim, long time
but we do have those things here, i put them on my tax return