15 Oct 2010

AUSkey hits 200,000 milestone

Posted by sbr

The popularity of AUSkey continues to grow in Australia’s business community, with more than 200,000 AUSkeys now issued to around  130,000  Australian businesses. 

Developed as part of Australia’s standard business reporting (SBR) initiative, AUSkey is the single key for businesses to report directly to government using SBR-enabled software, and access a range of government online services.  To find out more about AUSkey, visit the ABR website <<www.abr.gov.au/auskey>>.

Nationally, businesses have  already  used their AUSkey to  send reports through SBR as well as access secure on-line services with the Australian Taxation Office, and state and territory revenue offices.  Businesses can already use their AUSkey to send reports to ASIC, and next year will be able to use it to access their secure portal services. 

The number of commercial software developers integrating SBR into their software continues to grow.   Seven companies have now tested and self-certified their SBR-enabled products, with  ongoing additional  product announcements by software developers expected.  

SBR take-up is expected to increase progressively over a 4 year period to 2014, as software developers progressively release SBR-enabled products into the market.  To find out more about SBR, including how to find SBR enabled products, visit the SBR website <<www.sbr.gov.au/About_SBR/Products_available.aspx>>.

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3 Responses to “AUSkey hits 200,000 milestone”

  1. Will E-record be among the upgraded software?
    A great simple program that never quite caught on with the business community.

    Thanks,
    Imatiler.

     

    imatiler

    October 26th, 2010 at 10:34 ampermalink

  2. The ATO conducted a review of e-Record and found that the release of new operating systems such as Windows 7 and Mac OS 10.6.2 has meant that e-Record needed to be redeveloped in order to run under these new operating systems.

    The ATO continues to undertake a very substantial multi year process to modernise its information technology (IT) systems. This program of work is intended to deliver a better experience for all taxpayers across the full range of taxes the ATO administers. As part of this work, the ATO has had to identify where it can best invest it’s IT resources. For this reason, when the cost to redevelop e-Record was considered in the light of other identified higher priority work it was decided that e-Record would not be redeveloped and as a result it was decided to discontinue e Record from 1 July 2010.

     

    John McAlister

    October 29th, 2010 at 10:34 ampermalink

  3. As a new business owner I thought the AUSkey was extremely easy to use and made my reporting very easy

     

    alice65

    November 18th, 2010 at 9:50 ampermalink

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