Child
Child includes:
- your adopted child, stepchild or ex-nuptial child
- a child of your spouse
- someone who is your child within the meaning of the Family Law Act 1975 (for example, a child who is considered to be a child of a person under a state or territory court order giving effect to a surrogacy agreement).
Maintaining another person
You maintained a dependant or maintained another person if any of the following applied:
- you both lived in the same house
- you gave them food, clothing and lodging
- you helped them to pay for their living, medical and educational costs.
If you had a spouse for the whole of 2018–19 and your spouse worked at any time during the year, we still consider you to have maintained your spouse as a dependant for the whole income year.
We consider you to have maintained a dependant or maintained another person even if the two of you were temporarily separated, for example, due to holidays or overseas travel.
If you maintained a dependant or maintained another person for only part of the year, you may need to adjust your claim accordingly.
Spouse
Your spouse includes another person (of any sex) who:
- you were in a relationship with that was registered under a prescribed state or territory law
- although not legally married to you, lived with you on a genuine domestic basis in a relationship as a couple.
Adjusted taxable income (ATI)
A person's ATI is the sum of the following amounts:
- taxable income (excluding any assessable First home super saver released amount)
- adjusted fringe benefits total, which is the sum of:
- reportable fringe benefits amounts received from employers exempt from fringe benefits tax under section 57A of the Fringe Benefits Tax Assessment Act 1986 multiplied by 0.53, and
- reportable fringe benefits amounts from employers not exempt from fringe benefits tax under section 57A of the Fringe Benefits Tax Assessment Act 1986
- reportable employer superannuation contributions
- deductible personal superannuation contributions
- certain tax-free government pensions or benefits received by the person
- target foreign income (income and certain other amounts from sources outside Australia not included in your taxable income or received as a fringe benefit)
- net financial investment loss (the amount by which the person's deductions attributable to financial investments exceeded their total financial investment income)
- net rental property loss (the amount by which the person's deductions attributable to rental property exceeded their rental property income)
less
- any child support payments the person provided to another person.