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Use Online services for business to interact with the ATO online for all your tax and super needs.
By registering with ATO online services, you can access a range of tax and super services in one place. ATO online services are convenient, secure and accessible at any time. Sole traders can access this on any device to lodge their tax return, manage business activity statements, PAYG instalments and accounts, make payments, set up payment plans and more.
Employers have to give every new employee a copy of the Fair Work Information Statement (the FWIS) before, or as soon as possible after, they start their new job.
You can use the Fair Work Ombudsman website to search for Awards, agreements, entitlements and pay rates.
The National Employment Standards (NES) are 11 minimum employment entitlements that have to be provided to all employees.
The Seasonal Worker Programme (SWP) commenced on 1 July 2012 and is administered by the Department of Education, Skills and Employment. The Pacific Labour Scheme (PLS) commenced on 1 July 2018 and is administered by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. They are complementary schemes.
The ATO produces a range of tax tables to help you work out how much to withhold from payments you make to your employees or other payees. A tax withheld calculator that calculates the correct amount of tax to withhold is also available.
If you're an employer or another withholding payer, the ATO's tax withheld calculators can help you work out the tax you need to withhold from payments you make to employees and other workers.