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.

For a personalised tax and super experience, you will need:
- a myGov account linked to the ATO
- to register your device by providing and verifying an Australian mobile number and an email address.

With the ATO app, you can:
- follow your 2024-25 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 our online services
- set up quick login using your device’s security features like face and fingerprint recognition
- view messages in real-time when important changes are made to your ATO record and to verify certain actions before they are submitted
- lock your ATO record if you see fraudulent activity, to keep it safe
- verify if a call claiming to be from the ATO is genuinely from us
- view your tax accounts, with links to our online services 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

Hmm, not sure if this is worth it. At a minimum, at least I don't have to worry about my financial data getting sold to third parties. But, it's a lot of clicks to record a deduction, and still nowhere to record deductions like donations or WFH days, so these still all have to be recorded separately. Plus I can't see that there's any easy way to export to CSV so you can retain your own record - which seems notable given other users reports of data losses.

Won't install from Google Play. It looks for 'other devices' and my recent android phone appears on the drop-down list but I can't select it and the app therefore won't install. On repeated contacts by phone ATO voicemails left contain wrong numbers and after guessing the correct one the pin given just says 'service unavailable'. Totally hopeless.

It generally works well enough and is helpful when preparing and lodging your return - but frustrating that they've discontinued Android 12 support... it is the ONLY app out of 50+ apps I use which requires Android 13+. Also annoying that you need to register your device- if you delete from an old phone without setting up on the new phone first it will add extra inconvenience. This may give an illusion of high security but strike me more as typical of govt departments' lack of IT professionalism

What’s new

- You can login with your registered device while your record is locked, to access security features
- Updates to security features