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.

 

Role of the ATO

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Learn about the purpose and operations of the ATO.  Test your knowledge about tax and find out if you are a tax expert.

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Wacky facts

  • Fact 26

    The introduction of electronic lodgement of tax forms in the late 1980s not only reduced the time it took to send out returns from ten weeks to two weeks but had a significant impact on the incidence of repetitive strain injury among data processors at the ATO.

Glossary

Superannuation / super guarantee charge

A charge that employers have to pay to the ATO when they either pay super for their employees late or they don’t pay at all.

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