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Had a phone call today from a lady who told us she works at the ATO Australian Taxation Office.
She’d been reading our website and wanted to correct our entry regarding the due date for the December Quarter Q2 BAS lodgement for Business Activity Statements
“I’m calling from the ATO and noticed your website states the BAS is due 2 March 2010″
“Yes, That’s right!”
“Well, they are actually due on 28 February”
- “Really? What day is 28 February?
“Oh, I don’t know, I’ll see if I can find a calendar,” she said [One wonders why she can't use the calendar on her computer]
Amazing! People at the ATO have nothing better to do than web-surfing and calling up website owners
It’s wonderful to know that our hard-earned tax dollars are keeping Australia’s Public Servants so gainfully employed and contributing so much to the Australian Economy
Reminds us of an incident last year where the ATO sent out a letter advising that 5 cents was owing
Unfortunately the call dropped out, and the woman from the ATO didn’t get back to us.
Maybe she did find the ATO website page entitled “Activity statement generate dates” (BAS) which shows the Legislative due date as being 2 March 2010,
The reason the BAS is due 2 March is owing to the fact that 1st March (Monday) is a public holiday in Western Australia
It’s good to know that the staff at the ATO feel the need to search our website to see what dates the BAS are due 
Probably because it’s so confusing trying to navigate around the ATO website
2nd Quarter: 28/02/12
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