Deductions, or tax losses from earlier income years

Based on the information available in your return and if you uploaded your deductions from our myDeductions tool, myTax will automatically display some deductions.

The following deductions are automatically displayed

If you have salary or wage income	Work-related car expenses Work-related travel expenses Work-related uniform, occupation specific or protective clothing, laundry and dry-cleaning expenses Work-related self-education expenses Other work-related expenses
If you have a foreign pension or annuity	Undeducted purchase price (UPP) of a foreign pension or annuity
Always displayed	Interest deductions Dividend deductions Gifts or donations Cost of managing tax affairs

Deductions you will need to select if they are relevant to you

• Income protection, sickness and accident insurance premiums
• other deductions which includes:  
  • Personal super contributions
  • Deduction for project pool
  • Forestry managed investment scheme deductions
  • Low value pool deduction
  • Any other deductions.
   

Tax losses from earlier income years

If you wish to claim tax losses from earlier income years, you will need to select this item.

myDeductions tool

If you have used our ATO app's myDeductions tool to record your deductions throughout the year, you can upload them to the ATO and we can then pre-fill your tax return.

To upload your deductions to the ATO:

1. Open the ATO app
2. Navigate to the myDeductions tool
3. Select 'Back up and upload'
4. Use your myGov login information to complete the upload process.

If you have completed the upload process after starting your myTax return, select Get my deductions on the Personalise screen to pre-fill your return with the recorded deductions.

For more information, see myDeductions - FAQs.