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.

 

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Before you start Tax 101, let's see how much you already know about tax. Answer these questions to find out. After you have finished Tax 101, you can re-sit this test to find out if you are a tax genius!

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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

Customs duty

A duty or tax levied on goods imported into Australia, administered by the Australian Customs Service.

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