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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • e-tax numbers set to double this year

    The Australian Taxation Office expects half a million Australians to lodge their tax return using its free e-tax software package to double this year.

  • Half a million Aussies tackle tax online

    The Australian Tax Office expects over a quarter of the country's 2.3 million tax return "self-preparers" to lodge their return via the Internet, in the eTax system's best year ever.

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  • Read the blog post - Angus Kidman

    Taxing times for the ATO

    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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