Keeping Tax deductions on track in no time
As an employee, claiming your deductions for work expenses can be a pain. Not only do you have to sift through piles of receipts and bank statements, there is also the fact that you have to find the time to do it!
With no time or the willing to keep track of the pile of receipts that await for you, some people tend to lose money when it comes to deductions. Well today you can stop overwhelming yourself or your accountant at the end of each financial year. There is a faster way on claiming and keeping track of those deductions and I'm here to show you how!
Recently the ATO launched an app made for deductions (for IPhone, Windows and Android) called mydeductions, and in my opinion, tax time just got a whole lot easier!
What does it do?
This application allows you to quickly and easily capture and classify work-related expenses, gifts and donations whilst you’re on the run.
It stores photographs of your receipts (hallelujah!)
It enables you to record car trips (goodbye pesky log books!)
It also allows you to upload the stored data directly into ‘My Tax’ the free online tax return for individuals or share them with your tax agent at the end of the FY.
Best of all it’s absolutely free!
The only problem with this app is that the information is stored directly on the device so I highly recommend backing up your device regularly to avoid any lost data (we should be doing that regularly anyway!).
Click here for a link to the ATO’s educational video.
To find it in the app store search for “mydeductions”.
For more information about how a financial planner can help you, speak to us today.
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