$900

[gemgem49]

I know there is a thread about this somewhere, but since it's closer to the date... can someone PLEASE confirm who is eligible to get it. I assumed I was coz I paid tax and put in a tax return 07/08. But my mum is on the phone to her accountant who says that you have to have paiud at least $6000 tax to get it (but that she's "not sure"... great accountant mother)!!!! Please confirm/deny I was so looking forward to that money.

edit: sorry i should be more specific... eligible to receive Rudd's tax bonus or whatever it is.

[gemgem49]

also my retarded cousin just said to me : Yeah you have to pay it back it was on the news, it is like a loan with no interest. tax payers HAVE to pay it back ha. single parents with school aged kids dont have to pay theres back .. just tax payers.

[Eriny]

What? It isn't a loan, the government is giving people money.

You would qualify if:
- You've worked enough in order to pay tax
- You are in school
- You receive Centrelink benefits; OR
- You are in university and your family receives Family Tax Benefit A.

[gemgem49]

What? It isn't a loan, the government is giving people money.

You would qualify if:
- You've worked enough in order to pay tax
- You are in school
- You receive Centrelink benefits; OR
- You are in university and your family receives Family Tax Benefit A.

I worked enough to pay $94 in tax. lol is that enough?
My mum does get Family Tax Benefit A but she said she only got one lot of $950 even though there's me and my 16 year old brother ($950 per eligible child ages 4 - 18)

[gemgem49]

also would you say that since im in University, that if my mother did get $950, I would be entitled to it?
Everything is linked to her account anyway, for all I know she got my $950 and kept it for herself lol.

[AppleThief]

If you've earned under $6000 and paid tax, you should've done a tax return and claimed it all back.

Therefore, you didn't end paying tax after all, so I think you are ineligible.

(I think)

[sick muzza]

i think you  have to have earnt like 15,000 or something, my sister thought she would get it but she didnt earn enough.

[excal]

If you had money withheld for tax (that is, money taken from your pay as 'tax') and then had it given back to you, you haven't paid tax.

Kinda shit, if you ask me.

[AppleThief]

If you had money withheld for tax (that is, money taken from your pay as 'tax') and then had it given back to you, you haven't paid tax.

Kinda shit, if you ask me.

Yup, because of that, I'm too poor for a government handout, or something...

[Fyrefly]

Mmm....

I earned over $6000, and paid tax.
But I had enough deductions to claim it all back.
Maybe I should've only claimed deductions to the point where I paid $1 in tax XD

[Eriny]

^ Yeah my mother (who is an accountant) said that we could have rigged it so that my sister and I paid $1 tax, but alas it didn't happen.

[gemgem49]

Damnit. Crushed.

[excal]

^ Yeah my mother (who is an accountant) said that we could have rigged it so that my sister and I paid $1 tax, but alas it didn't happen.

Had I known about it last year, would have done it easily.

Alas, such is life.