Reconcile ATO pre-fill with client records
Compare 2025–26 pre-fill income with client statements, preserve the source of a mismatch and resolve it before final review.
Source reviewed Product documentation
The client's bank statement shows an interest credit that looks close to, but not quite the same as, the ATO pre-fill amount. Choosing one figure without recording why leaves the reviewer to repeat the search.
Compare by payer and income type
For 2025–26, gather the current-year ATO pre-filling report, bank and dividend statements, income statements and the prior return. Work payer by payer. Check the name, period, gross amount, withholding and any component that a bank or fund reports separately. A pre-fill can arrive after the client documents, so make sure both cover the same year and version.
For interest and dividends, keep the underlying statements with the comparison. For salary, compare the income statement as well as any payslip the client sent. A missing prior-year stream is a document chase; a current-year amount that differs from the pre-fill is a review question with two sources. Record the reason and the figure used, including a corrected statement or payer amendment when that is the answer.
Let the case expose the disagreement
Upload both sets of records to the individual Workpapers case. The build uses the pre-fill-backed income figure and raises a review point when the client document conflicts with it. Open the linked source, reply to the finding, and hand the settled answers to the working-paper assistant. Inspect its proposed changes and the resulting figures. Do not erase the differing document; it explains why the question existed.
The comparison is a 2025–26 workflow. Any tax rates or thresholds needed for the finished return come from that income year's workbook rules, not a number supplied by this page.
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