TFN Declaration app made easier for business to onboard a new employee

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Gone are the days you go to Post Office or Newsagents  to collect TFN Declaration form to fill out when employing new staff and send the mail to ATO.   As we move further into the digital age, it is not unusual to see politicians get savvy in the art of social media to promote their campaign and engage with their followers. While most government services are now available online andmore so with the ATO as their compliance process moveswith the objective of digital by default going forward. Continue reading →

Track & Trace with Email Log

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It has been about a year now since personalised email setting was released within GovReports, and often we are still getting support calls on missing emails sent.  Personalised email setting is to enable for GovReports users to pre set the nominated email they want to receive for incoming emails such as lodgment & queue notifications as well as nominated email to send from when emailing out reports from GovReports platform.
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Client Update functionality is live!

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We have released Client Update functionality within GovReports for Tax and BAS agents since July 21st but not an official announcement as the service available is with limited capability of just adding and or deleting a client. This means you now no longer need to go to ATO Portal to add or delete a client of your agent number account before using GovReports.

For BAS agent, this service comes with a catch! Continue reading →

Live Client Update

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For Tax and BAS agents, clients must be added to the ATO portal to prepare and lodge reports via SBR enabled software like GovReports. This is a cumbersome process if a new client comes along and there is need to lodge a tax return or simply a IAS/BAS only then to get an error message that you are not authorised to lodge for the reporting entity because the client is not registered under your agent number from the portal or that they were previously on your portal but has since been removed. Continue reading →

Farewell to ELS as PLS settles in via SBR

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ATO Electronic Lodgment Service (ELS) has for a long time been the lodgment gateway  for tax professionals to submit compliance and regulatory reports to the tax office on behalf of clients via software providers.  The days of using ELS software are now numbered as ATO replaces ELS with Standard Business Reporting (SBR) from April 2017 and by the new term,  Practitioner Lodgment Service (PLS). Continue reading →