I had a meeting with a Tax Agent (Ami Criticos) this-afternoon, embarrassingly, for the last 5 years of tax, and to set up an ABN. I have to admit, the reason for not doing my tax for the first 3 years, was that combined, they were still less than $250. I don’t have an excuse for the last two years, as each they were easily more than the 3 years prior combined.

The next step was to set up the ABN, which I had looked at doing by myself a few months ago, but didn’t want to do the wrong thing, seeing as, if I remember correctly, there were a whole bunch of different types, each with numerous different options. This only took a couple of minutes for the Tax Agent to set up, obviously, because she knew exactly what type and options I needed. She then recommended a nice free Software Application from the Australian Tax Office, eRecord, which is available for both Apple Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.