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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Australian Tax Office backs creaking eTax system

    The Australian Tax Office is scrambling to reassure tax-payers that its eTax system will survive the last-minute rush today.

  • Two million Aussies ditch paper for e-taxman

    A record 1.9 million Australians used the Internet to lodge their annual tax returns in 2007.

Blogs (1)

  • 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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