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  • Australian Tax Office extends eTax deadline

    Record levels of online Tax lodgements paralysed the eTax system yesterday, prompting the Tax Office to extend the deadline until midnight, Sunday November 3.

  • No tax support for Mac or Linux yet

    The Australian Taxation Office has advised Australians using Apple or Linux operating systems that they will be unable to lodge tax returns electronically using the ATO's e-tax software unless they use a Windows emulator or a kiosk in one of the agency's shop fronts.

  • ATO to redevelop e-tax

    Australian Taxation Office officials are looking to expand the capacity of its e-tax client application to accept pre-prepared data, with information from financial institutions and share registers top off the list.

  • Taxman targets Mac, Linux users

    Apple Macintosh and Linux users will have one less excuse to pay the taxman when development gets underway on an improved e-tax application compatible with any computer system.

  • Tax Commissioner: E-tax doesn't make tax less taxing

    After announcing that 1.9 million Australians lodged their tax in 2007 using e-tax, the Tax Commissioner has said that online initiatives can only go so far to ease the burden of an overly complex tax system.

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    Australians, it turns out, are rather keen on submitting their tax returns electronically, but if you want to know just how keen they are right at this moment, you'll have to wait for a couple of years.

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