Australian Taxation Office

Australian Taxation Office

About this app

The ATO app allows you to manage your tax and super affairs on the go – making tax simple & easy.

A myGov account linked to the ATO is required for a personalised tax and super experience.

With the ATO app, you can:
- follow your 2023-24 tax return from start to finish, including checking prefill information, tracking the progress of your return and its outcome
- view in real-time when lodgments and payments are due, and seamlessly action them via ATO Online
- set up streamlined and secure login using your device’s security features like face and fingerprint recognition
- view your tax accounts, with links to ATO Online to view transactions, create payment plans or pay
- see an overview of your super balance and accounts
- view your employment income and superannuation contributions required from your employers
- check your personal, business (sole traders only) and registered agent’s details
- access our most popular tools.

Our most popular tools include:
- myDeductions: record your work expenses as an employee or sole trader. Sole traders can also record income. At tax time you can easily upload your myDeductions records to your tax return or email a copy to your tax agent.
- Tax withheld calculator: calculate the amount of tax to withhold from salary and wage payments.
- ABN Lookup: search for an Australian business number (ABN).
- Business performance check: compare your business with similar businesses in your industry using the latest Small business benchmarks.

The ATO app can automatically send usage data to help improve the app. The data we collect doesn’t identify you and you can choose to turn this off at any time in your app’s settings.

GPS can be used to record trips in myDeductions. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

Find out more at www.ato.gov.au/app

Ratings and reviews

This App is lacking so many important features. It is poorly designed and you are struggling to find what you need. Although the Website Version is the best in the world. ATO please try to consider the App to be like Website Version, and believe me it is not a big deal (you also know). Some people want to use only phone to lodge the tax return, for their benefit please do something.

Absolutely tedious to use. The app design is so poor that it's evident the ATO pooped this out as an afterthought. This app should be for quick actions like logging expenses on the go with the ability to scan receipts (not just take a photo) but instead the home screen is wasted real estate with an image of the seaside. It will also only accept uploads of images and not pdf scans of receipts. Do yourself a favour and just sort your receipts by tax year by scanning directly into OneDrive.

I faithfully recorded all of my deductions, photographing my receipts in the app. It used up some time as it was clunky and poorly designed but I figured, hey, I'm doing the right thing and when it comes time to do my tax return I will be in front. Just got back from the tax agent, not only was there no record of my deductions for this year, but everything was wiped. Great job ATO, you screwed another working class taxpayer, fun story at the watercooler back in Canberra.

What's new

- Improvements and bug fixes