The Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT) return for 2025 is now available.
📌 ATO rates remain unchanged.
📅 Submissions to the ATO can be made from 1 April 2025 onwards.
🔗 For more details, visit the ATO website.
We’re excited to introduce two powerful new features that make financial reporting even more flexible and professional!
Now, you can export your financial reports directly to Microsoft Word (.docx). This allows for easier customization, formatting, and branding, giving you full control over your report presentation.
With custom page breaks, you can now manually insert breaks exactly where you need them, ensuring your reports are clean, professional, and easy to read.
✅ Both features are available in the Pro version of Financial Reports and Legal Documents.
We’re improving the way you manage tax depreciation in LodgeiT. You can now add pools and assets directly into the Company, Trust, Partnership and Superfund tax returns.
You can seamlessly migrate existing assets if you’ve used our depreciation tool before. LodgeiT will map pools and assets to their appropriate sections on the tax return, eliminating the need for manual entry.
Supported tax returns
Easily add new assets on a single screen for a faster, more efficient workflow.
As the holiday season approaches, we’re excited to bring you a fresh update to make your workflows smoother and more efficient. Here’s what’s new and noteworthy:
1️⃣ CGT Worksheet Updates
You can now correctly split the "Less costs incurred" among the owners in the CGT worksheet.
2️⃣ Work Dashboard Export
You can now export your work items to Excel or CSV! Access this feature via the 3-dot menu on your dashboard or visit the Export Page.
3️⃣ Filter for Not Suspended Forms
We’ve added a Not Suspended filter to the work and form dashboards, helping you focus only on active, non-suspended forms. This feature will be available starting 26th December.
✅ ATO Systems Availability
Great news! The ATO systems will remain operational during the Christmas shutdown period with no planned maintenance.
🕒 LodgeiT Support Team Holiday Schedule
Our Support Team will be taking a festive break from 5 PM AWST on Friday, 20th December 2024, and we’ll be back in full swing on 6th January 2025. While response times may be a little slower, rest assured, we’re still here to help with any urgent concerns.
From all of us at LodgeiT, we’d like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! May your holidays be filled with joy, relaxation, and plenty of good cheer.
Thank you for being part of our journey in 2024. We look forward to an exciting year ahead with you!
Warm regards,
The LodgeiT Team
You can now easily print your lodgment receipts! Just click the Print button on the tax return lodgment receipt page to save a hard copy or a digital version for your records.
Now you can unlock lodged forms. It can help in cases when you need to relodge the form. You can also set permissions to control who has access to this feature, ensuring secure and managed use.
You now have the ability to unlock lodged forms, which is particularly useful if you need to relodge a form. Additionally, you can set permissions to control who is able to unlock forms.
Please be informed that that effective immediately, we will no longer support the following ATO forms:
This decision is due to the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) deactivating support for these services, meaning they are no longer available for submission.
You can find the list of forms supported by LodgeiT here.
The issue with TPAR (Taxable Payments Annual Report) and TFNR (Closely Held Trusts TFN Report) lodgment errors has been resolved.
LodgeiT is now receiving proper responses from the ATO, ensuring that lodgment status is accurately reflected within the system.
You can now lodge TPARs & TFNRs as usual, and the status should update correctly in LodgeiT without errors.
Please note: Do not re-lodge any forms that previously showed errors unless you have confirmed they were not lodged successfully on the ATO portal.
We are pleased to inform you that the issue with TPAR (Taxable Payments Annual Report) and TFNR (Closely Held Trusts TFN Report) lodgment errors has been resolved.
LodgeiT is now receiving proper responses from the ATO, ensuring that lodgment status is accurately reflected within the system.
You can now lodge TPARs & TFNRs as usual, and the status should update correctly in LodgeiT without errors.
Please note: Do not re-lodge any forms that previously showed errors unless you have confirmed they were not lodged successfully on the ATO portal.
Thank you for your patience and cooperation. If you encounter any further issues, please do not hesitate to reach out to our support team.
We are currently experiencing an issue where the ATO is not returning the proper response for TPAR (Taxable Payments Annual Report) lodgments. This results in lodgment errors being displayed in LodgeiT, despite the lodgments being successfully accepted by the ATO.
What to do if you encounter this error:
We appreciate your understanding and are working closely with the ATO to resolve this issue as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience.
We're excited to announce a series of new features and updates designed to enhance your experience and improve the efficiency of your workflows. Here’s what’s new:
After sending an e-signature request, you can now copy the signing link for each recipient. This feature is especially useful if you need to share the link through alternative channels, ensuring that your documents are signed quickly and efficiently.
You can now manually add signatories to legal documents and financial reports, offering greater flexibility in managing your documents.
We hope these new features and updates help streamline your processes and provide even more value to your work. As always, we’re here to support you, so please reach out if you have any questions or feedback.
The new tax season is coming and we are excited to announce the following updates for you.
The 2024 tax forms are now available. LodgeiT will automatically create new forms for you in a few days, ensuring that relevant field values are carried forward from your 2023 returns. Check out the ATO's overview of key changes.
Please note that pre-filling data is available for tax returns from 1 July as ATO receives it, with most data being available by the end of July.
You can generate and print the tax depreciation report for assets added using the new method directly within the tax return. Simply go to Reports > Tax Depreciation and select a tax return. This feature is currently available only for individuals.
We added 2 new templates for legal documents:
We would love to hear your feedback, so please leave a comment here or send us an email to support@lodgeit.net.au.
Create and sign legal documents seamlessly with our new template library in LodgeiT, and efficiently manage tax depreciation by directly adding pools and assets into tax returns.
Now you can create and sign legal documents directly in LodgeiT. Choose from our template library or customize your own with ease. LodgeiT will automatically fill in all client details, streamlining your workflow and saving you time.
Our template library includes: Engagement Letter, Company Constitution, Minutes of Meeting of Directors, Trust Distribution for Corporate and Individual Trustees.
Choose the payment option that suits you best: buy a package or pay per document, with e-signatures included. Take advantage of our 30% discount — prices start as low as $1.56 per report when you purchase a package with the discount. For detailed pricing, please visit your billing page. Keep in mind that purchased documents will expire at the end of the subscription period.
Watch our demo video to learn more.
We are changing the way you add tax depreciation. You can now add pools and assets directly into the tax return. It is now available for individual income tax returns starting from the 2020 tax year. This new method will soon be available for other types of tax returns as well.
You can easily migrate pools and assets into the tax return. You will be prompted if you previously used our depreciation tool. LodgeiT will map pools and assets to their appropriate sections on the tax return, eliminating the need for manual entry.
On 1 July 2025, you will no longer be able to run tax depreciation using the old method. It will be used only for accounting depreciation.
We have automated the ProAdvisor subscription activation and renewal process. To activate your subscription, visit the ProAdvisor page in QuickBooks for Accountants. If you previously used a coupon code for activation, please wait until your subscription expires and then click Renew on your billing page in LodgeiT. Next year, your subscription will renew automatically as long as you maintain an active connection to your QuickBooks Online Accountant file.
For any issues, please contact our support team.