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When I lived in New Zealand, you didn't have to file at all. You could create an account on a website with your tax ID and see all the reports employers sent in
by djsumdog 7y ago
When I lived in New Zealand, you didn't have to file at all. You could create an account on a website with your tax ID and see all the reports employers sent in. You could requests corrections if things were wrong and have any return transferred to a normal bank account.
In Australia, they had a desktop application you could download, provided by the government. It wasn't pretty, but it was straight forward and took less than an hour to go through the whole thing.
I once met an Aussie at a security meetup who worked at immigration and I told him how surprised I was that I got my visa in like two days. He was like, "oh I worked on that piece. Yea that use to take two weeks; but we were able to fix a lot of that process." I wouldn't be surprised if Australia taxes were all web based and even faster today.
- GordonS 7y agoSurely that's only for employees though, not for companies? This is how it works in several countries, including the UK - your employer tells the tax service about your salary and pension payments, and you only need to fill a tax return if you have "something else" to tell them about, such as another source of income.