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

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.

Well, if there was a prize for the most useless app on the playstore, this app would win hands down. What is the point of using this app if it just connects you to the ATO Web site. Just friggen go to the ATO Web site in the first place. I really think that the ATO asked a six year old to develop an app, and this is what he came up with. However, it doesn't have ads, which I guess is a good thing, seeing it doesn't do anything else. It lasted about ten minutes on my phone. What a waste of 10 min

Poorly designed and confusing, this app looks and feels like it was made 5+ years ago. Every page has a loading time for some reason, and some buttons will redirect you out of the app to the website with no warning. I suggest just using the website, as the app will send you there anyway.

What’s new

- Updates to business performance check tool
- Bug fixes