Got my cheque this week, under surname "S" with postcode 4800. I heard that they are doing it by postcode
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Got my cheque this week, under surname "S" with postcode 4800. I heard that they are doing it by postcode
I can shoot that one down in flames. Wife got hers the other day, still havent seent mine. my surname starts with O, hers with T So there doesnt seem to be any logical processQuote:
Originally Posted by JillB
I consider myself well and truly shot down! Perhaps it is prioritised on "goodness of heart". ATO would know, as they know everything about everyone :)
i am sure you'll get yours eventually .... he he he
I have to pay extra tax every year, but can't complain means I'm making money..
maybe they are doing it by TFN ? :) Just to chuck up another theory.
I suspect it's random. No mine hasn't come yet.
Can't be TFN, Missus and mine came in same post, TFN's were issued 6 months apart, and bear no resemblance.Quote:
Originally Posted by damian
There is no obvious patten, they could be using a logorithm or lodgement dates, but it seems pretty random. There is absolutely no clear sequence but perhaps they will eventually let us in.
I think it's quite touching that people think there's any system to the way the ATO works. :)
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Originally Posted by silentC
Come now Darren, no need to become cynical:)
There has to be some system (computers require explicit instructions), but it could be something as meaningless as a particular digit in the TFN. As in the 1st time, pay everyone with 4th digit equal to 0 or 6. Next round do 4th digit 1 or 5. And so on until all possible 4th digits are covered, meaning that everyone has been processed..
Programmers need to have fun too, you know.:U
I don't qualify for the incentive, but if I did receive it I would return it.
What is this scheme doing for our futures? It's incredibly short-sighted and will do nothing to fend off recession in the long term - all it's doing is buying a little time at the expense of our futures.
When the recession really bites, where will all the money come from to assist people then? Yet more borrowing?
It is, or at least pseudo-random, according to woman on the train who rang the ATO to ask.Quote:
Originally Posted by johnc
I like the way the ATO sends it to your accountant and the local one charges $13 to process the payment. Someone at work said that one person has been charged $35 handling fee. Surely Kev foresaw what was going to happen.
Graham
(No $900 for me yet, only the colon testing kit- now why didn't they send that to my accountant first?)
Mine arrived today. It can go towards $4,000 I spent on a pitch towards a client - for which I am the incumbent.
according to the ATO bod quoted in the Herald about 7 weeks ago, the "system" such as it is has been devised in conjunction with Australia Post and the Big 4 to achieve as even a spread as possible across the countryQuote:
Originally Posted by switt775
The main principles are:
1) the payments will occur over several weeks – I don't remember whether it was 6, 8 or 10
2) every postal delivery area — i.e. postie run — gets approximately the same number of cheques / payment advices each day or week (the intention being to avoid paying posties overtime to deliver the extra mail)
3) the banks have an opportunity to stock the local teller machines in advance of the payments in a particular area — if everyone in town got their payment in the same week there's a risk that the local bank would run out of cash
ian
There was a mechanism where by all accounting firms could opt not to receive it at all, or not to receive it into their trust accounts. The processing fee is not going to sit well with clients at all, especially as their accountant had the option of not being involved in the process.Quote:
Originally Posted by Carry Pine
People who have not received a cheque can ring up after the 16th to hurry it along, and those with enquiries can phone to see if they are eligible, plus their accountant can look up online to see if a cheque is on its way, or they are still sitting in credit.
Sir Humphrey Appleby once said "A cynic is what an idealist calls a realist"Quote:
Originally Posted by Alastair
Mine came via the accountant - no charge.Quote:
The processing fee is not going to sit well with clients at all, especially as their accountant had the option of not being involved in the process.
I always liked the cut of that fellow's gib :)Quote:
Sir Humphrey Appleby...
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Originally Posted by Gingermick
I like that:)
More important, did you keep it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Waldo
Or are you waiting to find out?
Have to wait until next Monday to find out.
It's gonna be a long week.
Bugger!Quote:
Originally Posted by Waldo
Nice little legacy we will leave for our kids/grandkids,deficit of 130 billion$,
they will still be paying it off when Armagedon arrives.:roll:
just to let you know our Govt have got their finger on the pulse - i went to the farm today and there was an envelope in the letter box to the executor for .... .......... (my mate) and yep thats right the cheque for $900 inside - i guess he's still helping the economy even now.:doh::doh:
Cheers
Still waiting....
It only comes to those who have faith, master Wong
Faith! How much a kilo? When my money is here I will buy some. :rolleyes:
Still waiting.....:roll:
Well the handout is but over and NO I didn't get anything or did SWMBO
Gee I must have been right
Just another case of the small business man getting screwedQuote:
Originally Posted by nev25
We earned less than $80,000
We payed tax.
We lodged a tax return.
WE did not receive the $900.
We are self funded retirees.
:((
That is not fair.Quote:
Originally Posted by macca2
I finally got mine yesterday from my accountant. The bastard must have kept it for months so he could earn some interest.:~ :D
gonna buy a new triton Wonger?
I know it is free money but it doesn't mean I can just throw it away. :U
How much is a new Triton these days?
What do you call a deer with no eyes
:rolleyes: for someone who arrives first in maths since ....yeh well an economist he's not :no:Quote:
Originally Posted by Wongo
It's ok Macca I know like yourself we all pay tax every time we pay for something and pay GST :roll:
So in actual fact we are handing $$$ back to ourselves while politicians get the permanent pay rise
:think:Quote:
Originally Posted by Wongo
... about $900, you can buy mine if you'd like. I've got someone wanting to pay twice that, but 'cause you are good bloke I'll sell it to you if you like. :2tsup:
Sorry can't afford it cos I didn't get $900. Sell it to another lucky buyer.:rolleyes:
You did, your wife just didn't tell you. :U