If your income changes or is wrong
Lodge an estimate of your income
You can ask us to base your child support assessment on an estimated adjusted taxable
income if:
- you lodged your tax return or advised us of your adjusted taxable income for the
year (used to calculate child support payments), and
- your current adjusted taxable income has reduced by 15 per cent or more than the
income used in the assessment, or
- you already lodged an estimate for this child support period more than two months
ago and the new estimate is 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.