I just completed my tax on my gov and the estimate says I owe nearly a thousand dollars. I’m not earning any more than last year and I got about 800 back last year. Anyone else having this issue?
Just to note, you can set up a repayment plan fairly easily. Just call up the ATO and state how much your comfortable with paying back, divide it up to end roughly same time next year. Minimises the bill shock.
My husband is a tax consultant. This week he had a client who receives a pension alongside some casual work. The employer didn’t consider the pension and withheld tax according to a lower tax bracket than she should have been in, considering both.
She owes nearly $5k. Hubby says “this employer is large and experienced, they absolutely should have known better”. Poor woman.
Anyway, it’s worth checking that your tax withheld from your paycheck is correct. If they aren’t taking enough out, you’ll have a balance to pay at tax time.
The obvious answer is you haven’t paid enough tax. Perhaps your employer isn’t withholding quite enough tax from your pay?
If that turns out to be the answer, and your total owed is around $1k, I wouldn’t personally correct that with my employer. I’d prefer to have the use of that $1k throughout the year and pay the ATO what I owed at the end.
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