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Australia Individual Tax Return (myTax, 2026 income year)

Prepare and lodge an individual's Australian income tax return online using myTax, the Australian Taxation Office's myGov-linked online lodgment service, for the 2026 income year (1 July 2025 to 30 June 2026). myTax pre-fills most return data from employers, banks, government agencies, health funds and other third parties by late July each year; the individual reviews the pre-filled figures, amends or completes any that are missing or wrong, and lodges. This document models the field set of the ATO's paper equivalent, the 'Tax return for individuals' (NAT 2541), which myTax's online screens mirror: personal and contact details, electronic funds transfer details, income items 1-12 (salary and wages, allowances, employer lump sums, employment termination payments, government allowances and pensions, annuities and superannuation income streams, superannuation lump sums, attributed personal services income, interest, dividends, and employee share schemes), deductions D1-D10 and prior-year losses, tax offsets T1-T2, Medicare levy questions M1-M2 and private health insurance policy details, adjustments A1-A4, income tests IT1-IT8, spouse details for taxpayers with a spouse (married or de facto) during the year, and the taxpayer's declaration. Out of scope: the separate 'Tax return for individuals (supplementary section) 2026' (business income and expenses, capital gains, foreign income and assets, partnership and trust distributions, rental schedules, and other less-common income/deductions), gated by this document's requiresSupplementarySection field but not itself modelled here; multiple concurrent employers (the source form's five repeating salary/wage payer rows) and multiple concurrent private health insurance policies (the source form's four repeating policy rows), both of which are repeating third-party structures the current flat field model (GSP-0009) cannot express; and the transfer of a refund to a different taxpayer's income tax account or student loan. It does not submit the return or calculate tax payable; the live ATO myTax service and the live NAT 2541 source are always authoritative (see VERIFICATION.md).

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Registry entry

au/ato/individual-tax-return-mytax

Jurisdiction
Australia · national
Version
1.0.0
Verification
draft
Authority
Australian Taxation Office

GovSchema spec v0.3

Authoritative source ATO 'Lodge your tax return online with myTax' guidance page, plus the official 'Tax return for individuals 2026' (NAT 2541-06.2026) paper form whose field set myTax's online screens mirror

Machine access

Schema document
registry/au/ato/individual-tax-return-mytax/1.0.0/schema.jsonapplication/schema+json
Verification record
registry/au/ato/individual-tax-return-mytax/1.0.0/VERIFICATION.mdtext/markdown
Registry catalog
registry/index.jsonone record per schema id

Field reference

148 fields across 10 steps, read from the published schema.json — names, types, requiredness, and validation as the document states them. The live government form remains the authoritative source.

Access to myTax

  • hasMyGovAccountLinkedToAto boolean required

    You need a myGov account with an active link to the ATO to access online services and lodge with myTax. Sign in to myGov, select ATO from your linked services, then select 'Manage tax returns'.

Individual information (page 1-2)

  • taxFileNumber string required

    Your tax file number. Handle as sensitive personal data.

    patternclassification: sensitive-pii
  • isAustralianResident boolean required

    Whether you were an Australian resident for tax purposes.

  • title enum optional

    Your title, if shown.

    enum: mr | mrs | miss | ms | other
  • familyName string required

    Your family name.

    length: 1–100classification: pii
  • firstGivenName string required

    Your first given name.

    length: 1–100classification: pii
  • otherGivenNames string optional

    Any other given names.

    length: 0–100classification: pii
  • nameChangedSinceLastReturn boolean optional

    Has any part of your name changed since completing your last tax return?

  • postalAddressLine string required

    Print the address where you want your mail sent.

    length: 1–200classification: pii
  • postalSuburbOrTown string required

    Suburb/town/locality (postal)

    length: 1–100classification: pii
  • postalState enum required

    Australian state or territory of the postal address.

    enum: 8 values
  • postalPostcode string required

    Postcode (postal)

    patternclassification: pii
  • postalCountryIfNotAustralia string optional

    Country if not Australia (postal)

    length: 0–100
  • postalAddressChangedSinceLastReturn boolean optional

    Has this address changed since completing your last tax return?

  • homeAddressDifferentFromPostal boolean optional

    If yes, print your home address below.

  • homeSuburbOrTown string optional

    Only the suburb/town/locality, state/territory, postcode and country labels are printed for the home address block on the source form; no separate street-line box was captured — see VERIFICATION.md.

    length: 0–100classification: pii
  • homeState enum optional

    State/territory (home)

    enum: 8 values
  • homePostcode string optional

    Postcode (home)

    patternclassification: pii
  • homeCountryIfNotAustralia string optional

    Country if not Australia (home)

    length: 0–100
  • daytimePhoneNumber string optional

    Your daytime phone number

    length: 0–30classification: pii
  • mobilePhoneNumber string optional

    Your mobile phone number

    length: 0–30classification: pii
  • emailAddress string optional

    Your email address

    length: 0–200classification: pii
  • willLodgeFutureReturn enum optional

    'no_final_return' means this is your final tax return.

    enum: yes | dont_know | no_final_return
  • dateOfBirth date optional

    Required if you were under 18 years old on 30 June 2026 (see question A1) to avoid delays in processing.

  • bsbNumber string required

    6-digit BSB number of the account for any refund.

    patternclassification: financial
  • bankAccountNumber string required

    Account number

    length: 0–10classification: financial
  • bankAccountName string required

    For example, JQ Citizen. Don't show the account type, such as cheque, savings, mortgage offset.

    length: 0–100classification: financial

Income (items 1-12, page 2-3)

  • salaryOrWagesOccupation string optional

    Your main salary and wage occupation

    length: 0–100
  • salaryOrWagesPayerAbn string optional

    Modelled as a single payer/employer line; the source form provides five repeating employer rows (TYPE codes) not expressible in GovSchema's flat, non-repeating field model — see VERIFICATION.md.

    pattern
  • salaryOrWagesTaxWithheld number optional

    Salary or wages — tax withheld

  • salaryOrWagesIncome number optional

    Salary or wages — income

  • allowancesEarningsTipsDirectorsFees number optional

    Allowances, earnings, tips, director's fees etc

  • employerLumpSumPaymentAmountA number optional

    Employer lump sum payments — Amount A

  • employerLumpSumPaymentAmountB number optional

    Employer lump sum payments — 5% of Amount B

  • etpPaymentDate date optional

    Employment termination payment (ETP) — date of payment

  • etpPayerAbn string optional

    Employment termination payment (ETP) — payer's ABN

    pattern
  • etpTaxableComponent number optional

    Employment termination payment (ETP) — taxable component

  • etpCode string optional

    The ETP type code printed by the payer on your ETP payment summary.

    length: 0–2
  • governmentAllowancesAndPayments number optional

    Australian Government allowances and payments (e.g. Youth Allowance, JobSeeker, Austudy)

  • governmentPensionsAndAllowances number optional

    If you complete this item you must also complete the Seniors and pensioners tax offset (T1) question.

  • annuitySuperIncomeStreamTaxedElement number optional

    Australian annuities and superannuation income streams — taxable component, taxed element

  • annuitySuperIncomeStreamUntaxedElement number optional

    Australian annuities and superannuation income streams — taxable component, untaxed element

  • annuitySuperIncomeStreamCappedDefinedBenefit number optional

    Assessable amount from capped defined benefit income stream

  • annuitySuperIncomeStreamLumpSumArrearsTaxed number optional

    Lump sum in arrears — taxable component, taxed element

  • annuitySuperIncomeStreamLumpSumArrearsUntaxed number optional

    Lump sum in arrears — taxable component, untaxed element

  • superLumpSumPaymentDate date optional

    Australian superannuation lump sum payments — date of payment

  • superLumpSumPayerAbn string optional

    Australian superannuation lump sum payments — payer's ABN

    pattern
  • superLumpSumTaxableComponentTaxed number optional

    Australian superannuation lump sum payments — taxable component, taxed element

  • superLumpSumTaxableComponentUntaxed number optional

    The source form places a third dollar box immediately above item 9 whose exact association with item 8 versus a running tax-withheld subtotal could not be confirmed with certainty from the extracted text layer alone — see VERIFICATION.md.

  • attributedPersonalServicesIncome number optional

    Attributed personal services income

  • grossInterest number optional

    If you're a foreign resident, make sure you print your country of residence on page 1.

  • interestTfnAmountsWithheld number optional

    TFN amounts withheld from gross interest

  • dividendsUnfrankedAmount number optional

    If you're a foreign resident, make sure you print your country of residence on page 1.

  • dividendsFrankedAmount number optional

    Dividends — franked amount

  • dividendsFrankingCredit number optional

    Dividends — franking credit

  • dividendsTfnAmountsWithheld number optional

    TFN amounts withheld from dividends

  • employeeShareSchemeDiscountEligibleForReduction number optional

    Employee share schemes — discount from taxed upfront schemes, eligible for reduction

  • employeeShareSchemeDiscountNotEligibleForReduction number optional

    Employee share schemes — discount from taxed upfront schemes, not eligible for reduction

  • employeeShareSchemeDiscountFromDeferralSchemes number optional

    Employee share schemes — discount from deferral schemes

  • employeeShareSchemeTotalAssessableDiscount number optional

    Employee share schemes — total assessable discount amount

  • employeeShareSchemeTfnAmountsWithheld number optional

    TFN amounts withheld from employee share scheme discounts

  • employeeShareSchemeForeignSourceDiscounts number optional

    Employee share schemes — foreign source discounts

  • totalSupplementIncomeOrLoss number optional

    Transcribed here only if you completed the separate 'Tax return for individuals (supplementary section) 2026', which is out of scope for this document — see VERIFICATION.md.

  • totalTaxWithheld number optional

    Sum of every 'Tax withheld' box on items 1-8 above.

  • totalIncomeOrLoss number optional

    Sum of the income amounts on items 1-12 (and the supplement, if any) less any loss amount.

Deductions and losses (D1-D10, L1, page 4)

  • workRelatedCarExpenses number optional

    D1 Work-related car expenses

  • workRelatedTravelExpenses number optional

    D2 Work-related travel expenses

  • workRelatedClothingLaundryDryCleaning number optional

    D3 Work-related clothing, laundry and dry cleaning expenses

  • workRelatedSelfEducation number optional

    D4 Work-related self-education expenses

  • otherWorkRelatedExpenses number optional

    D5 Other work-related expenses

  • lowValuePoolDeduction number optional

    D6 Low value pool deduction

  • interestDeductions number optional

    D7 Interest deductions

  • dividendDeductions number optional

    D8 Dividend deductions

  • giftsOrDonations number optional

    D9 Gifts or donations

  • costOfManagingTaxAffairs number optional

    A 'Litigation costs' label is printed directly above D10 on the source form; whether it names a component of this box or a separate unlabelled amount could not be confirmed with certainty — see VERIFICATION.md.

  • otherExpensesManagingTaxAffairs number optional

    Other expenses incurred in managing your tax affairs

  • totalSupplementDeductions number optional

    Transcribed here only if you completed the separate supplementary section, out of scope for this document.

  • totalDeductions number optional

    Sum of D1 to D10 (and the supplement, if any).

  • taxLossesOfEarlierIncomeYears number optional

    L1 Tax losses of earlier income years

  • primaryProductionLossesCarriedForward number optional

    Primary production losses carried forward from earlier income years

  • primaryProductionLossesClaimedThisYear number optional

    Primary production losses claimed this income year

  • nonPrimaryProductionLossesCarriedForward number optional

    Non-primary production losses carried forward from earlier income years

  • nonPrimaryProductionLossesClaimedThisYear number optional

    Non-primary production losses claimed this income year

  • taxableIncomeOrLoss number optional

    Total income or loss less total deductions (and losses claimed).

Tax offsets (T1-T2, page 5)

  • seniorsPensionersTaxOffsetCode string optional

    ATO-defined single-letter tax offset code; the ATO works out the offset amount itself.

    length: 0–2
  • seniorsPensionersVeteranCode string optional

    ATO-defined veteran code, only if it applies.

    length: 0–2
  • superIncomeStreamTaxOffset number optional

    T2 Australian superannuation income stream tax offset

  • totalSupplementTaxOffsets number optional

    Transcribed here only if you completed the separate supplementary section, out of scope for this document.

  • totalTaxOffsets number optional

    Sum of T2 and the supplement tax offsets, if any.

Medicare levy related questions and private health insurance (M1-M2, page 6-7)

  • medicareLevyReductionOrExemptionClaimed boolean optional

    Only certain taxpayers are entitled to a Medicare levy reduction or exemption.

  • numberOfDependentChildrenAndStudents integer optional

    Number of dependent children and students

    range: 0–∞
  • fullMedicareLevyExemptionDays integer optional

    Full 2.0% levy exemption — number of days

    range: 0–366
  • halfMedicareLevyExemptionDays integer optional

    Half 2.0% levy exemption — number of days

    range: 0–366
  • allYearPrivateHospitalCover boolean optional

    Were you (and all dependants) covered by private patient hospital cover for the whole period 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2026?

  • allYearIncomeUnderSurchargeThreshold boolean optional

    For the whole of 2025-26, were you a single person with income for surcharge purposes of $101,000 or less, or a member of a family with combined income of $202,000 or less (plus $1,500 per dependent child after the first), and were all dependants in a Medicare levy exemption category?

  • medicareLevySurchargeExemptDays integer optional

    0 if you must pay the surcharge for the whole period; 365 if you don't have to pay it for the whole period; otherwise the number of days for part of the period.

    range: 0–366
  • healthInsurerId string optional

    Modelled as a single policy; the source form provides four repeating policy rows not expressible in GovSchema's flat, non-repeating field model — see VERIFICATION.md.

    length: 0–10
  • healthInsuranceMembershipNumber string optional

    Private health insurance — membership number

    length: 0–30classification: financial
  • healthInsurancePremiumsEligibleForRebate number optional

    Private health insurance — your premiums eligible for Australian Government rebate

  • healthInsuranceGovernmentRebateReceived number optional

    Private health insurance — your Australian Government rebate received

  • healthInsuranceBenefitCode string optional

    ATO-defined benefit code printed on your private health insurance statement.

    length: 0–2
  • healthInsuranceTaxClaimCode string optional

    ATO-defined tax claim code printed on your private health insurance statement.

    length: 0–2

Adjustments (A1-A4, page 7)

  • under18Income number optional

    Required if you were under 18 years old on 30 June 2026, or you may be taxed at a higher rate.

  • partYearTaxFreeThresholdMonths integer optional

    A2 Part-year tax-free threshold — months eligible for threshold

    range: 0–12
  • partYearTaxFreeThresholdDate date optional

    A2 Part-year tax-free threshold — date

  • governmentSuperContributionsCode string optional

    ATO-defined code.

    length: 0–2
  • incomeFromInvestmentPartnershipOtherSources number optional

    Printed directly below A3 without its own A-numbered question label in the source extraction; its exact question association could not be confirmed with certainty — see VERIFICATION.md.

  • otherIncomeFromEmploymentAndBusiness number optional

    See the sourcing caveat on incomeFromInvestmentPartnershipOtherSources above.

  • otherDeductionsFromBusinessIncome number optional

    See the sourcing caveat on incomeFromInvestmentPartnershipOtherSources above.

  • workingHolidayMakerNetIncome number optional

    A4 Working holiday maker net income

  • workingHolidayMakerHomeCountry string optional

    A4 Working holiday maker — home country

    length: 0–100

Income tests (IT1-IT8, page 8)

  • reportableFringeBenefitsExempt number optional

    If the amount is zero, write 0.

  • reportableFringeBenefitsNotExempt number optional

    IT1 Total reportable fringe benefits amounts — employers not exempt from FBT under section 57A

  • reportableSuperContributions number optional

    IT2 Reportable employer superannuation contributions

  • taxFreeGovernmentPensions number optional

    IT3 Tax-free government pensions

  • targetForeignIncome number optional

    IT4 Target foreign income

  • netFinancialInvestmentLoss number optional

    IT5 Net financial investment loss

  • netRentalPropertyLoss number optional

    IT6 Net rental property loss

  • childSupportPaid number optional

    IT7 Child support you paid

  • numberOfDependentChildrenIt8 integer optional

    IT8 Number of dependent children

    range: 0–∞

Spouse details - married or de facto (page 8-9)

  • spouseFamilyName string optional

    Complete this section only if you had a spouse (married or de facto) during 2025-26. If you had more than one spouse during the year, print the name of your spouse on 30 June 2026 or your last spouse.

    length: 0–100classification: pii
  • spouseFirstGivenName string optional

    Your spouse's first given name

    length: 0–100classification: pii
  • spouseOtherGivenNames string optional

    Your spouse's other given names

    length: 0–100classification: pii
  • spouseDateOfBirth date optional

    Your spouse's date of birth

    classification: pii
  • spouseGender enum optional

    Your spouse's gender

    enum: male | female | indeterminate
  • hadSpouseForFullYear boolean optional

    Did you have a spouse for the full year, 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2026?

  • spouseFromDate date optional

    Only if you didn't have a spouse for the full year.

  • spouseToDate date optional

    Only if you didn't have a spouse for the full year.

  • spouseDiedDuringYear boolean optional

    Did your spouse die during the year?

  • spouseTaxableIncome number optional

    Excluding any assessable first home super saver released amount.

  • spouseTrustIncomeSection98 number optional

    Only the amount not already included in your spouse's taxable income.

  • spouseFamilyTrustDistributionTaxIncome number optional

    Only the amount your spouse would otherwise have had to show as assessable income.

  • spouseReportableFringeBenefitsExempt number optional

    Your spouse's total reportable fringe benefits amounts — employers exempt from FBT under section 57A

  • spouseReportableFringeBenefitsNotExempt number optional

    Your spouse's total reportable fringe benefits amounts — employers not exempt from FBT under section 57A

  • spouseGovernmentPensionsAndAllowances number optional

    Excludes exempt pension income.

  • spouseExemptPensionIncome number optional

    Don't include any amount paid under the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004.

  • spouseReportableSuperContributions number optional

    Total of reportable employer superannuation contributions and deductible personal superannuation contributions.

  • spouseOtherSpecifiedExemptPayments number optional

    Other specified exempt payments your spouse received

  • spouseTargetForeignIncome number optional

    Your spouse's target foreign income

  • spouseNetInvestmentLoss number optional

    Total of net financial investment loss and net rental property loss.

  • spouseChildSupportPaid number optional

    Child support your spouse paid

  • consentToRepaySpouseFamilyAssistanceDebt boolean optional

    Do you consent to use part or all of your 2026 tax refund to repay your spouse's Family Assistance debt?

  • spouseCustomerReferenceNumber string optional

    Only if you consent to use your refund to repay your spouse's Family Assistance debt, and your spouse has given you authority to quote their CRN.

    length: 0–12classification: sensitive-pii
  • familyAssistanceConsentSignatureDate date optional

    Date you signed the Family Assistance consent

Taxpayer's declaration (page 10)

  • requiresSupplementarySection boolean optional

    The supplementary section itself (additional business, capital gains, foreign income, rental, and partnership/trust schedules) is out of scope for this document — see VERIFICATION.md.

  • furtherInformationAttached boolean optional

    Have the instructions asked you to attach further information relating to specific questions?

  • declarationSigned boolean required

    You must read the declaration and sign the return as being true and correct before lodging.

  • declarationDate date required

    Date of signature

Verification record

This file is the source-review record for this document version, per the manual-source-review-v1 practice.

Current claim

  • status: draft
  • verification.method: manual-source-review-v1
  • verification.lastVerifiedAt: 2026-07-02

The document was derived from the ATO's own guidance page describing myTax and the official paper equivalent form it mirrors. The full field-by-field comparison the practice requires against the live, authenticated myTax online screens (Procedure step 2) has not been completed, so this remains draft, not verified.

Sources examined

  • Document (id, version): au/ato/individual-tax-return-mytax / 1.0.0
  • Spec version: GovSchema 0.3.0
  • Authority: Australian Taxation Office ("ATO").
  • Primary source (flow/eligibility): https://www.ato.gov.au/individuals-and-families/your-tax-return/how-to-lodge-your-tax-return/lodge-your-tax-return-online-with-mytax ("Lodge your tax return online with myTax", last updated 24 April 2026 per the page itself). Direct fetch of this URL returned HTTP 403 from both a raw curl request and the WebFetch tool in this sandbox — add ato.gov.au to the same WAF/bot-protection-blocked domain list as nzta.govt.nz ([[gov474-dmv-business-formation-vertical-and-xfa-extraction]]) and canada.ca. Recovered via the Wayback Machine's CDX API (web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?...&output=text&fl=timestamp), which returned a capture at 20260616083509 — 16 days old at authoring time, not a stale fallback. The capture itself required curl --compressed (the archived response is gzip-encoded; a plain curl without that flag returns unreadable compressed bytes) — worth trying before assuming a Wayback fetch failed.
  • Secondary source (field-by-field detail): the official "Tax return for individuals 2026" (NAT 2541-06.2026), downloaded directly (HTTP 200, no access block) from iorder.com.au (the ATO's own Publications Ordering Service, linked from ato.gov.au/forms-and-instructions/tax-return-for-individuals-2026/how-to-get-the-individual-tax-return-2026), 12 pages. This is a static (non-fillable) PDF — pdfjs-dist's getFieldObjects() returns null and there is no /AcroForm or /XFA marker in the raw bytes — the same shape as NZTA's DL1 form ([[gov474-dmv-business-formation-vertical-and-xfa-extraction]]), so fields were reconstructed from the text layer's x/y position data (items sorted by y descending then x ascending; each numbered item/question's boxes and single-letter box codes read off their printed position) rather than AcroForm field names.
  • Retrieved / reviewed: 2026-07-02.
  • Reviewer: GovSchema Engineering (Standards Engineer — initial authoring source review).

What was confirmed against the source

| Source element | Field(s) | |---|---| | "Access to myTax" (myGov account linked to the ATO) | hasMyGovAccountLinkedToAto | | Page 1-2: TFN, residency, name, postal/home address, contact details, EFT details | taxFileNumber through bankAccountName | | Page 2-3, items 1-12 (salary/wages through employee share schemes) and page 3 totals | salaryOrWagesOccupation through totalIncomeOrLoss | | Page 4, D1-D10 deductions, L1 losses, taxable income | workRelatedCarExpenses through taxableIncomeOrLoss | | Page 5, T1-T2 tax offsets and total | seniorsPensionersTaxOffsetCode through totalTaxOffsets | | Page 6-7, M1-M2 Medicare levy questions and private health insurance policy details | medicareLevyReductionOrExemptionClaimed through healthInsuranceTaxClaimCode | | Page 7, A1-A4 adjustments | under18Income through workingHolidayMakerHomeCountry | | Page 8, IT1-IT8 income tests | reportableFringeBenefitsExempt through numberOfDependentChildrenIt8 | | Page 8-9, spouse details (married or de facto) | spouseFamilyName through familyAssistanceConsentSignatureDate | | Page 10, taxpayer's declaration questions and signature | requiresSupplementarySection through declarationDate | | Page 10 "I declare that: ..." bullet list, quoted verbatim and combined into one statement | documents[].declarationAttestation | | ato.gov.au: myGov/ATO account linkage requirement, pre-fill sources (employers, banks, government agencies, health funds, third parties, myDeductions uploads), 31 October lodgment due date | hasMyGovAccountLinkedToAto field description; document description |

What is NOT independently confirmed (out of scope), and three sourcing caveats

  • The separate "Tax return for individuals (supplementary section) 2026" (pages 13-16 of the same publication, referenced repeatedly on pages 1-10 as a distinct attachment) is entirely out of scope — business income and expenses, capital gains, foreign income and assets, partnership/trust distributions, and rental schedules live there, not in this document. This mirrors gb/hmrc/self-assessment-tax-return-sa100's SA101-SA109 exclusion and nz/ird/individual-tax-return-ir3's IR3G-worksheet exclusion. requiresSupplementarySection (page 10, declaration question 1) is modelled as a gate field but the supplementary section's own fields are not.
  • Multiple concurrent employers. Item 1 (Salary or wages) prints five repeating payer rows (TYPE codes visible in the extracted text layer). This is a repeating third-party structure the flat v0.3 field model (GSP-0009) cannot express — the same limitation already recorded for ie/revenue/self-assessment-tax-return-form11s (Panels C/L) and nz/ird/individual-tax-return-ir3 (Boxes 38C-38H). This document models a single payer/employer line (salaryOrWagesPayerAbn, salaryOrWagesTaxWithheld, salaryOrWagesIncome, salaryOrWagesOccupation); a filer with more than one employer in the year is only partially served by v1.0.0.
  • Multiple concurrent private health insurance policies. The private health insurance policy details block prints four repeating policy rows with identical fields. Same GSP-0009 limitation as above; this document models a single policy.
  • Transferring a refund to a different taxpayer's account. Not present on the core pages reviewed (unlike the IR3's Boxes 38C-38H, the NAT 2541 core return has no such section); noted here only because the document description excludes it for completeness, matching the IR3 precedent's phrasing style. No corresponding field exists to omit.
  • Three genuine box-boundary ambiguities in the extracted text layer, recorded rather than resolved by guessing (same discipline as the NSW interlock/Q-condition negation gap and the DE i-Kfz 10-day/14-day figure conflict, [[gov474-dmv-business-formation-vertical-and-xfa-extraction]]): Each affected field's own description repeats the relevant caveat so a consumer is not misled into treating the association as settled.
    1. superLumpSumTaxableComponentUntaxed (item 8) — a third dollar box sits immediately above item 9's label in the extracted position data; its precise identity (a third component of item 8, versus a running tax-withheld subtotal carried from earlier items) could not be confirmed with certainty from position data alone.
    2. costOfManagingTaxAffairs (D10) — a "Litigation costs" label is printed directly above D10's own boxes; whether it names a component amount within D10 or a separate, unlabelled figure is not resolved.
    3. incomeFromInvestmentPartnershipOtherSources, otherIncomeFromEmploymentAndBusiness, and otherDeductionsFromBusinessIncome — three dollar boxes printed directly below A3 (Government super contributions) carry letter codes but no A-numbered question label of their own in the extracted text; they may belong to A3 or to an unlabelled adjustment block the extraction did not capture a heading for.
  • A possible home-address street line. The printed form's home-address block (page 1, "Print your home address below") captures only Suburb/town/locality, State/territory, Postcode and Country in the text layer, unlike the postal address block a few lines above it which has an explicit free-text address line. It is plausible a street-address box exists there as a graphical element the text layer did not capture as readable text (the same class of gap as the gender checkboxes on NZTA's DL1 form) rather than a genuine absence. homeSuburbOrTown only models what the extraction evidences; no homeAddressLine field was invented.

Why every field here is optional except the compulsory few

Unlike a blank-form-fill-in document (e.g. us/irs/individual-income-tax-return-1040), myTax's defining shape is reviewing a pre-filled return: the ATO says it will "pre-fill most information from your employers, banks, government agencies, health funds and third parties by late July" before the individual ever opens the return. A field being optional here therefore reflects both (a) genuine applicability (most items apply only to some taxpayers, exactly as on the paper form) and (b) the pre-fill shape itself — myTax may populate a value the individual never manually types, so required: true would wrongly imply the applicant must supply it by hand. The form's own compulsory markings are honored directly: M2 (Medicare levy surcharge) is printed "THIS QUESTION IS COMPULSORY FOR ALL TAXPAYERS", and the declaration/signature are required to lodge — those are the only fields with required: true besides the core identity/access fields (myGov linkage, TFN, residency, name, postal address details, EFT details) that every lodgment genuinely needs. This is the first published GovSchema document exercising this "review a pre-filled return" shape, also shared by the still-open DE ELSTER and SG myTax Portal/Form B1 tax-return candidates ([[gov430-taxes-vertical-and-gsp0019]]).

Time-versioning and the edition axis (flagged spec gap)

The NAT 2541 is genuinely time-versioned — the ATO reissues a fresh edition every income year (the form's own footer reads "NAT 2541-06.2026" and "1 July 2025 to 30 June 2026" throughout) — the same shape as gb/hmrc/self-assessment-tax-return-sa100, us/irs/individual-income-tax-return-1040, ie/revenue/self-assessment-tax-return-form11s, and nz/ird/individual-tax-return-ir3. Spec v0.3's edition.scheme enum is closed to us-tax-year / gb-tax-year / award-year (SPEC.md §5.7) — none of which is correct for Australia, whose income year runs 1 July to 30 June (neither a calendar year nor the UK's April-to-April year). Rather than mislabeling the scheme or unilaterally extending a closed enum, this document is published at the plain, non-edition registry path (registry/au/ato/individual-tax-return-mytax/1.0.0/schema.json), consistent with the IE and NZ workaround. This is the fourth reference schema to hit this exact gap (after IE Form 11S, NZ IR3, and — for the same reason — implicitly blocking DE ELSTER and SG Form B1 from the edition axis too), further reinforcing spec/proposals/0019-generalize-edition-scheme-calendar-tax-year.md as a genuinely cross-jurisdictional need, not a one-off.

Scope and jurisdiction notes

  • Conditional requiredness/visibility is expressed with requiredWhen/ visibleWhen (GSP-0013), targeting spec v0.3.
  • The hasMyGovAccountLinkedToAto gate uses a to: null / exitReason: "no-mygov-account-linked" transition (GSP-0013 §4), the same eligibility-gate pattern used by ca/on/mto/drivers-licence-renewal and de/kba/vehicle-registration for other myGov/portal-linkage preconditions. A taxpayer without a linked myGov account still has a paper-lodgment or registered-tax-agent path; those channels are a different process not modelled by this document (myTax-only), so the exit is presentational, not a claim that no other lodgment channel exists.
  • The declaration (page 10 bullet list) is modelled as a single documents[] attestation entry (GSP-0014 §1) with the combined statement text, plus declarationSigned/declarationDate fields in the flow — the same split nz/ird/individual-tax-return-ir3 and de/kba/vehicle-registration use.

Path to a verified claim (next step)

To advance to status: verified, a reviewer applies manual-source-review-v1 Procedure step 2 against the live, authenticated myTax online screens, resolves the three box-boundary ambiguities above by cross-checking the ATO's "Individual tax return instructions 2026" companion publication (not reviewed this cycle), and records the outcome here — shipping a new schema version if discrepancies are found (VERSIONING.md §3, immutability).

Re-verification

Per the practice's Cadence, nextReviewBy is set to 2027-01-01 (6 months), and in any case before the 2027 income year's edition of the NAT 2541 is published, since the source content itself changes annually.

View the raw record (VERIFICATION.md)

Version history

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