Australian Tax Return Tracker

All common income types (salary, interest, dividends and franking credits, rental, capital gains, business, trust and foreign income), 17 categories of work-related deductions, the standard deduction for work-related expenses from 2026-27, 9 rental expense categories, the Low Income Tax Offset, the Seniors and Pensioners Tax Offset, the Medicare levy and surcharge, and HECS/HELP repayments.

From the 2026-27 income year, an Australian resident who earns salary, wages or allowances can deduct up to $1,000 for work-related expenses without keeping receipts (section 25-130 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997). It is not an extra $1,000 on top of every claim. It is the lesser of $1,000 and your salary, wages and allowances, reduced dollar for dollar by the work expenses you claim that it covers, such as home office, car, travel, uniforms, tools, phone and self-education. Those expenses replace it dollar for dollar until the cap is used up, and anything above the cap adds to your deductions. So on a salary of $1,000 or more, $600 of those expenses leaves $400 of standard deduction, $1,000 in total, and more than $1,000 of them leaves none, with your itemised claims applying instead. On $300 of salary the cap is $300, so $600 of those expenses leaves no standard deduction and $600 in total. Union fees, professional memberships, income protection premiums, donations, tax agent fees and rental or investment expenses are claimed on top and do not reduce it. The tracker applies it for you and shows it as its own line. It does not apply before 2026-27, to non-residents, or to income that is only business or investment income or government payments other than Parental Leave Pay. The tracker also leaves it out for the working holiday maker status, which does not say whether you are a resident for tax purposes, and it counts salary, wages (including Parental Leave Pay) and allowances as labour income, so a termination payment or super income stream is not counted.

It applies the same published rates and offsets the ATO uses, so for straightforward returns it should land very close. Complex situations (PAYG instalments, multiple offsets, prior-year losses, study loan indexation timing) can move the final number. Treat it as a planning estimate, not a lodgement.

Your net capital gain: the amount that goes into your taxable income after the main residence exemption, your capital losses and the 50% CGT discount have been applied. The tracker adds that figure as it stands and does not apply a discount of its own, because one switch cannot describe a year that mixes discounted and undiscounted gains, losses and an exempt home. If you do not know the figure, the Capital Gains Tax calculator works it out for one sale and can send it here. Capital losses come off before this figure and can only reduce capital gains, never salary or other income, so a year of losses only is a net capital gain of zero.

Yes. Download a CSV you can open in a spreadsheet application such as Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets, print a short summary written for your tax agent, or send them a share link that restores exactly what you entered. The calculation runs in your browser and the share link carries the estimate in its address, including any notes, so anyone with the link can read it. calx does not save it to an account or a database.