Country pack

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Australia

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), the pint-aunz e-invoicing profile, and the financial statements (Statement of financial position — AASB 1060, Tier 2 simplified disclosures, Statement of profit or loss — AASB 1060, Tier 2 simplified disclosures, expenses by nature). Last checked on 2026-10-01 against 41 texts of law and official sources.

Country code
AU
Currency
AUD
Pack version
0.5.0
Last checked
2026-10-01
Set up Ekwo for AustraliaThe pack, file by file

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 accounts are 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 law

No 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
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 lines
  • AU-AASB1060-PL — 10 lines
Who has read itA pack is reviewed when a named professional has read it against the law, and never before.
community no named reviewer
41 sources cited
Last checked against the lawThe most recent day somebody opened one of the texts the pack was built from.
2026-10-01
Pack versionWhat this pack calls itself, the day it says its transcription is true, and the languages it publishes.
0.5.0 — published 2026-10-23
en

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-BASdeclaration

Free, 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-aunzeinvoicing

Free, 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

41 sources — the law this pack was read against

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