Tax 101 explores the reasons tax is collected and examines how governments use tax to provide services needed by the community, and the role of the ATO. Choose a topic to investigate or use the breadcrumbs to return to the course overview page.

 

How is tax revenue spent?

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Task A3.1 Tax revenue and my community
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Different levels of government provide a wide range of goods and services. Discover what these goods and services are, and explore your own community to see what kinds of things the government provides.

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Wacky facts

  • Fact 8

    In 1910, the Commonwealth Government introduced a land tax to provide for more defence spending and to prepare for the increase in migration. The land tax was chosen to encourage large-scale land owners to subdivide their land and sell it to small-scale settlers.

Glossary

Withholding declaration

A document that helps an employee notify their employer of a change in their PAYG withholding, for example, an entitlement to a tax offset. A withholding declaration authorises the employer to reduce or increase the amount of tax withheld from payments.

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