E-Tax online

[Bird]

Team
Anyone done their own tax gig with the Etax software off the ATO site???

I'm over paying ****s money to **** up my tax and get me audited - I can do that myself. FFS, my dog could have done better in 1/2 the time, and I don't have a dog.

Is it fairly easy, and self explainatory?? EG: Follow the bouncing ball kinda thing?

Thanks.

[Kit_e_kat9]

Lost,  I use it to get an estimate before seeing a "professional" to do the lodging.  He used E-Tax himself, so I learnt a few things whilst watching.  I'd get slightly more using the "professional".  Now your gross, net and savings interest etc are all listed for E-Tax to search out and use ... you just add anything it doesn't already know (which ain't much).

Kit_e

[Trackaprado]

Done it for the past few years, its easy when your tax is pretty straight forward.  It automatically can fill in your medicare, banking, and some income details.  Only problem is they don,t have a mac version

[D4D]

Only problem is they don,t have a mac version

People with Macs are so cool they don't need to pay tax...

[Campa]

Its the only way to go. We've done our's online for the last 4 years and it's all FREE   

My Tax man got me onto it. The Etax is very similar to the same program he uses in his office.

[Kevo]

Its pretty simple. I've done it myself the last 5 years. Takes no more than 30 minutes if your tax is relatively straight forward.

Cheers

[Bird]

Its the only way to go. We've done our's online for the last 4 years and it's all FREE   

Yep, thats one reason..
3 times I paid arseholes to do my tax for me, and 3 years I got audited and massive (1000's) having to pay back within 3 days or I faced marrying Joolia Dullard...

I'd rather miss out on a few sheckles than go through that hell again

[FZJ]

Mine is pretty basic these days so I use it.just looked at the one my accountant did from the year before and copied that.
im a mathamatical goose and I get the same return as the edgamicated bean counter did!you can just save it and add or take away deductions any time before you lodge it.
Pete

[fuji]

Mate
You should have no problems, with E tax. I did my sons last year and if I can do it anyone can.
PM me if you want as SWMBO brother is partner in firm in Eltham
Wayne

[Bird]

Ok, I've downloaded it, but left me ****in group cert at work.. I love today....

[FZJ]

Ok, I've downloaded it, but left me ****in group cert at work.. I love today....

it should fill that in for you once you give your details........

[D4D]

Is 'not enough' an option for your gross income?

[discoteddy]

We've used it for the last few years, good results and quick refund! Easy enough for me to use too, enough said!


Disoteddy.

[Campa]

You will need a number from your last tax return to lodge the E-tax. Im not sure what the number is called. I remember last year searching the house for it.

[Bird]

You will need a number from your last tax return to lodge the E-tax. Im not sure what the number is called. I remember last year searching the house for it.

oh great.......

[FZJ]

oh great.......

Its the Notice of assesment number on the .....um    notice of assesment from last year. (the only reason I know this is its sitting next to my pc as ive just finished mine.I hate paperwork

[Campa]

Yep thats the one thanks pedeosar 

Ive just gone to see if I can find my paperwork from last year so its handy near the pc for this years etax return.

[Jenko67]

Used it for many years, great.

[Vk3bq]

Stupid ATO. Mac is not a niche system. Put the form online or in java.

If the most recent census can be done online. So can my tax on my mac

[D4D]

Mac is not a niche system

Actually it is, worldwide Mac installed base approx 65 million, worldwide Windows installed base 650 million plus, you do the math

[Sicilianmama]

Used it for many years, great.

X2

[Wuzgonna]

Actually it is, worldwide Mac installed base approx 65 million, worldwide Windows installed base 650 million plus, you do the math

its possible in the not too distant future that apple orchard will overtake them window pains. 

Good Farmer that Steve Jobs (RIP) he's got shops popping up all over the place and I think apple have more cash than The US govt.

as for etax, never tried it ..... I'm on a mac!  But have heard its good.

[Bird]

its possible in the not too distant future that apple orchard will overtake them window pains.

they said that about Linux when Dell and HP started selling laptops with it installed... Now, where did that go again?

[Vk3bq]

Actually it is, worldwide Mac installed base approx 65 million, worldwide Windows installed base 650 million plus, you do the math

yes yes, all those mindless windows zombie machines and the 47 different version of windows

mac in australia is no longer small, no longer different, no longer so obscure, that the tax department can't produce a system thats cross platform. everyone else on the entire planet seems capable of doing so..

we won't even talk about iOS devices vs android.

some wiki (its on wikipedia - it must be true info).

By March 2011, OS X market share in North America had increased to slightly over 14%.[136] Whether the size of the Mac's market share and installed base is relevant, and to whom, is a hotly debated issue. Industry pundits have often called attention to the Mac's relatively small market share to predict Apple's impending doom, particularly in the early and mid 1990s when the company's future seemed bleakest. Others argue that market share is the wrong way to judge the Mac's success. Apple has positioned the Mac as a higher-end personal computer, and so it may be misleading to compare it to a budget PC.[137] Because the overall market for personal computers has grown rapidly, the Mac's increasing sales numbers are effectively swamped by the industry's expanding sales volume as a whole. Apple's small market share, then, gives the impression that fewer people are using Macs than did ten years ago, when exactly the opposite is true.[138] Soaring sales of the iPhone and iPad mean that the portion of Apple's profits represented by the Macintosh has declined in 2010, dropping to 24% from 46% two years earlier.[139] Others try to de-emphasize market share, citing that it is rarely brought up in other industries.[140] Regardless of the Mac's market share, Apple has remained profitable since Steve Jobs' return and the company's subsequent reorganization.[141] Notably, a report published in the first quarter of 2008 found that Apple had a 14% market share in the personal computer market in the US, including 66% of all computers over $1,000.[142] Market research indicates that Apple draws its customer base from a higher-income demographic than the mainstream personal computer market.[143]
[edit]

[Bird]

mac in australia is no longer small, no longer different, no longer so obscure

Actually your right, out of the 3500 machines at my last work, and ~300 in AU as part of 25,000 Worldwide at my current work, they are not obscure.. they dont exist. theres no mac's... And to make you laugh even more, when I worked for a place near Elephant and Wheelbarrow in St Kilda that was actually Apple Finance off their website (you clicked BUY NOW and you came to us ), they used Windows PC's and Redhat servers