In financial year 2019, around 9.8 million people in Australian lodged their tax return via a tax agent. By contrast, over 4.7 million Australians chose to complete their tax return via the myTax online lodgment system.
Individual tax returns lodged in Australia from financial year 2010 to 2019, by lodgment type
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