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Tax Help Your Way

Free Assistance with your Tax Return

Need a hand lodging your tax return? Free help provided by an ATO volunteer. Booking is essential.

Get free help with your tax return in person with an ATO volunteer.

Booking is essential.

About the Tax Help program
From July to October each year, our accredited volunteers help people lodge their tax returns online. Our volunteers can also help you to:

• create a myGov account
• lodge an amendment to your tax return
• claim a refund of franking credits
• tell us if you don't need to lodge a tax return.

Eligibility for Tax Help
You are eligible for Tax Help if your income is around $60,000 or less, have simple tax affairs for the income year and you didn't:

• work as a contractor – for example, a contract cleaner, taxi or uberdriver
• run a business, including as a sole trader
• have partnership or trust matters
• sell shares or an investment property
• own a rental property
• have capital gains tax (CGT)
• receive royalties
• receive distributions from a trust, other than a managed fund
• receive foreign income, that is not a foreign pension or annuity.
  
  

You will need to bring the following with you for your appointment:

• your myGov username or email you use for myGov and password – if you are unable to locate or remember your myGov sign in details,
  or don't have a myGov account, our volunteers can help
• your mobile phone to receive your myGov SMS security code
• your bank account details (BSB and account number)
• your tax file number (TFN)
• an original or amended notice of assessment from any one of the last five years
• income statements or payments summaries from all sources
• all your receipts for gifts, donations and work-related expenses
• details of any child support payments made
• details of your spouse's (married or de-facto) taxable income or a
• reasonable estimate if you had a spouse at any time during the financial year.

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