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 lock it to keep it safe
- 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.

So many negative reviews, but I'm happy with the app! Setting it up took a while, going through several security measures (understandable), but now I can log on instantly with the myGov credentials. I really like the up to date reported income and super features.

It was good. But now total shite. Can't log in, won't update says phone not supported. Told to update phone and reinstall, now it says phone is not supported. ATO!! I will claim a phone and expect 100% return at tax time as its your system that requires me to purchase it... Totaly useless.

What’s new

- Improvements and bug fixes