Thousands of Australians do their own tax and then object to the result, a phenomenon the Tax Ombudsman has described as “weird”.
Australians lodging their own annual tax return are the source of more than half the complaints lodged with the ATO, and a new report by the independent watchdog has found a spike in disallowed small business objections during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Tom McIlroy is the Financial Review’s Canberra bureau chief based in the press gallery at Parliament House. He was previously the AFR’s political correspondent. Connect with Tom on Twitter. Email Tom at thomas.mcilroy@afr.com
