If your income changes or is wrong
Lodge an estimate of your income
Child support assessments use your adjusted taxable income from a previous year.
You can ask us to use an estimate of your adjusted taxable income for the current
year if:
- your current assessment uses an adjusted taxable income from your tax return
or
- your current assessment uses an adjusted taxable income that you have previously
advised us, and
- your current adjusted taxable income has reduced by 15 per cent or more than the
income used in the assessment.
If you have already lodged an estimate for this financial year, you can also lodge
a new estimate for a different amount.
You may not be able to lodge an estimate for any part of your assessment that is
based on one of the following:
- an agreement
- a determination made under the change of assessment process, or
- a court order.
Click here for more information about estimating
your income.
To find out more about your options, including how to lodge an estimate call us
on 131 272.
Lodging your tax return
The best way to ensure your child support is correct is to lodge your tax return
on time every year. All parents need to lodge a tax return or tell us their income.
If you aren’t required to lodge a tax return, lodge a
Request for Taxable Income Details form.
If you have not lodged a tax return for two years and we can’t determine your
income from you or other information we have, we will use a default income of two
thirds of an annual weekly earnings figure published by the Australian Bureau of
Statistics each year.
If you lodge your tax return late, unless there are exceptional circumstances, we
won’t be able to backdate a reduction to the default income.