Country pack
communityAustralia
Ekwo is free, open source accounting software. Its Australia pack carries the chart of accounts (Australia reference chart of accounts, 156 accounts), 3 tax rates in AUD, the periodic return (Business activity statement, 20 boxes), and the pint-aunz e-invoicing profile. Last checked on 2026-09-21 against 35 texts of law and official sources.
- Country code
AU- Currency
AUD- Pack version
0.1.0- Last checked
- 2026-09-21
What the pack carries
- Charts of accountsWhat a company installs, and who each chart is published for.
default(default) — 156 accounts, for companies
- TaxesHow many the pack carries, at which distinct rates, and which treatments it can express.
- 24 taxes at rates of 0, 10, 47
domestic,exempt,export,foreign_services_received,import,not_subject - Periodic declarationThe form the ledger is read into, the cadences it is filed on, and how many boxes it has.
AU-BAS— 20 boxes, filed month or quarter or year
- When it is dueA rule of the country, not a date. A pack that cannot state its rule states nothing.
- day 21 of the month after the period
- The file it is deposited asThe brick of packages/formats that writes it, where one exists.
- filed by hand on the administration’s portal
- Electronic invoicingThe profile the country imposes, the day it starts, and the text that imposes it.
pint-aunz— no obligation in lawNo Australian statute obliges a business to issue or to accept an electronic invoice from another business, so the obligation is `none` and mandatory_from is empty. Australia exchanges electronic invoices on the Peppol network, of which the ATO is the Australian Peppol Authority, under the PINT A-NZ Billing specification that Australia shares with New Zealand (customization urn:peppol:pint:billing-1@aunz-1). Towards the public sector the obligation is the buyer's: ATO, eInvoicing for government, records the 2022 mandate for non-corporate Commonwealth entities to be able to receive eInvoices and the policy, announced in the Budget 2024–25 and not yet enacted, making eInvoicing their default method with 30 % of invoices received by 1 July 2026; nothing in it binds a supplier. ATO, Tax invoices, accepts an eInvoice issued under the A-NZ specification with its mandatory data as a document intended to be a tax invoice. Both identifiers are the Australian Business Number, ISO 6523 ICD 0151 of the Peppol electronic address scheme list: an Australian business is addressed by its ABN, and the ABN is also the identifier under which it is registered for GST, a branch appending its three-digit branch number.
- Where the tax balance landsThe accounts a filed declaration settles to, by role.
- payable
2110 - receivable
1155
- payable
- Bank statementsThe formats this country’s banks send, and whether anything here reads them.
- no format named
- Payment filesThe formats the country’s banks accept for an outgoing payment.
- no format named
- Financial statementsThe schemes the chart reports on, and the taxonomy their keys are written against.
AU-AASB1060-SFP— 31 linesAU-AASB1060-PL— 10 lines
- Who has read itA pack is reviewed when a named professional has read it against the law, and never before.
communityno named reviewer35 sources cited- Last checked against the lawThe most recent day somebody opened one of the texts the pack was built from.
- 2026-09-21
- Pack versionWhat this pack calls itself, the day it says its transcription is true, and the languages it publishes.
0.1.0— published 2026-09-21en
Free, and operated
Where the open core stops.
The line is operational, not functional. Everything that keeps working on its own is open core; what needs credentials, a certificate or a channel somebody keeps running is the hosted edition.
AU-BASdeclarationFree, for everComputed from the ledger, frozen box by box, filed by hand on the administration’s portal, and what it owes is carried to 2110. The deposit number and the administration’s own words come back into your own database.
OperatedTransmission: the credentials, the certificate and a channel somebody keeps running. The return stays yours.
pint-aunzeinvoicingFree, for everAn invoice is written and validated as pint-aunz by a brick of packages/formats, and read back the same way.
OperatedSending and receiving over Peppol: a certified access point and a certificate.
What it was built from
35 sources — the law this pack was read against
- A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 (No. 55, 1999), as compiled
Office of Parliamentary Counsel — Federal Register of Legislation · law · read 2026-09-21
- A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Regulations 2019 (F2019L00417), as compiled
Office of Parliamentary Counsel — Federal Register of Legislation · regulation · read 2026-09-21
- Taxation Administration Act 1953, Schedule 1 — pay as you go withholding
Office of Parliamentary Counsel — Federal Register of Legislation · law · read 2026-09-21
- A New Tax System (Australian Business Number) Act 1999
Office of Parliamentary Counsel — Federal Register of Legislation · law · read 2026-09-21
- Corporations Act 2001 (No. 50, 2001), as compiled — Chapter 2M, financial reports and audit
Office of Parliamentary Counsel — Federal Register of Legislation · law · read 2026-09-21
- Acts Interpretation Act 1901, s. 2B — definition of financial year
Office of Parliamentary Counsel — Federal Register of Legislation · law · read 2026-09-21
- Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
Office of Parliamentary Counsel — Federal Register of Legislation · law · read 2026-09-21
- Payment Times Reporting Act 2020
Office of Parliamentary Counsel — Federal Register of Legislation · law · read 2026-09-21
- AASB 1060 General Purpose Financial Statements – Simplified Disclosures for For-Profit and Not-for-Profit Tier 2 Entities (F2020L00288), as compiled
Australian Accounting Standards Board, made under s. 334 of the Corporations Act 2001 — Federal Register of Legislation · standard · read 2026-09-21
- Are you a large or small proprietary company
Australian Securities and Investments Commission · guidance · read 2026-09-21
- Business activity statement, form NAT 4189 (September 2025)
Australian Taxation Office · form · read 2026-09-21
- Instructions for completing your BAS
Australian Taxation Office · form · read 2026-09-21
- Instructions for completing your BAS — Step 1: Sales (G1 to G3)
Australian Taxation Office · form · read 2026-09-21
- Instructions for completing your BAS — Step 3: Purchases (G10 and G11)
Australian Taxation Office · form · read 2026-09-21
- Instructions for completing your BAS — Step 5: Summary (1A and 1B)
Australian Taxation Office · form · read 2026-09-21
- Instructions for completing your BAS — Step 2 and Step 4: the calculation worksheet (G4 to G9, G12 to G20)
Australian Taxation Office · form · read 2026-09-21
- Choose a method to complete your full BAS
Australian Taxation Office · guidance · read 2026-09-21
- Identify your accounting basis
Australian Taxation Office · guidance · read 2026-09-21
- Due dates for lodging and paying your BAS
Australian Taxation Office · guidance · read 2026-09-21
- When and how to report and pay GST
Australian Taxation Office · guidance · read 2026-09-21
- Choosing an accounting method for GST
Australian Taxation Office · guidance · read 2026-09-21
- GST-free sales
Australian Taxation Office · guidance · read 2026-09-21
- Input-taxed sales
Australian Taxation Office · guidance · read 2026-09-21
- Tax invoices
Australian Taxation Office · guidance · read 2026-09-21
- Registering for GST
Australian Taxation Office · guidance · read 2026-09-21
- Reverse charge GST on offshore goods and services purchases
Australian Taxation Office · guidance · read 2026-09-21
- Deferred GST scheme
Australian Taxation Office · guidance · read 2026-09-21
- Pay as you go (PAYG) withholding — how to complete your activity statement labels
Australian Taxation Office · guidance · read 2026-09-21
- Withholding if ABN is not provided
Australian Taxation Office · guidance · read 2026-09-21
- eInvoicing for government
Australian Taxation Office — Australian Peppol Authority · guidance · read 2026-09-21
- PINT A-NZ Billing BIS — Peppol International specification for Australia and New Zealand
OpenPeppol, with the ATO and the New Zealand Peppol Authority · standard · read 2026-09-21
- Electronic Address Scheme (EAS) code list — 0151, Australian Business Number
OpenPEPPOL · standard · read 2026-09-21
- UNCL5305 — duty or tax or fee category code
OpenPEPPOL — the list itself is published by UN/CEFACT · standard · read 2026-09-21
- Online services for business
Australian Taxation Office · portal · read 2026-09-21
- ABN Lookup
Australian Business Register · portal · read 2026-09-21
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