Built so trust is visible, not implied.
Every number should have somewhere to point. This page explains how source documents, review steps, lodgements, privacy, and security stay connected inside Myaccountant.
The best relationship with the ATO is a clear one.
When your records trace cleanly from the bank to the lodgement, every receipt attached, every decision logged, every category explained, review is calmer. Myaccountant is built so the evidence sits beside the number.
This is not an adversarial stance. A well-kept set of books is easier for you, your accountant, and the ATO to understand. The aim is simple: fewer gaps, fewer reconstructions, and less stress when a number needs to be checked.
What "traceable from source to submission" actually means.
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The source document is preserved.
Every receipt, statement, invoice and pay stub that enters the platform, by bank feed, by forwarded email, by upload, is kept as the original document, attached to the transaction it represents, for as long as you keep your account.
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Every review step is logged.
When a transaction is categorised, reconciled, or posted, the platform records what changed and why, whether the action came from you, your accountant, or a Workflow.
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Every number traces back.
From the total on your tax return, you can click through to the category it rolled up from, to the transactions it summed, to the source document each transaction came from.
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Every lodgement runs on clean data.
BAS, IAS and income tax returns are generated from the reconciled books, not from a separate data entry pass. What you lodge is what your books say.
The Workflows, and what their audit trail looks like.
Every Workflow produces a reviewable chain of custody. When the Property Workflow reads a manager's statement and posts transactions against your rental property, it keeps a record of four things: the source document, what it extracted, what it decided to do with each line, and why. The same pattern applies across every Workflow, Receipts, Property, Rideshare, Onboarding, and every one that ships after them.
You see this audit trail in the product. Every Workflow run opens a panel showing the original document on one side, the prepared transactions on the other, and the Workflow reasoning between them. If a number is ever questioned, by you, by your accountant, or by the ATO, the source is close to the number.
This is the difference that matters: the work is visible. You can open the source, review the suggestion, and see why it was made.
Your data, your records, your accountant, your decisions.
Your data lives on Australian servers, protected by encryption at rest and in transit, with two-factor authentication available on every account. We never sell it. We never use it to train external AI models. Your accountant sees what you grant them access to, nothing more. If you close your account, you can export everything first; then it is deleted, subject to legal retention rules.
- Hosted in Australia, by an Australian company. No cross-border data residency.
- Encryption at rest and in transit. Industry-standard AES-256 and TLS 1.3.
- Two-factor authentication available on every account.
- Full data export, in formats your next platform can read. No lock-in, ever.
Direct to the ATO. Direct to super. The regulator-approved pipes.
Lodgement to the ATO runs via Standard Business Reporting, the direct, authenticated path the ATO publishes and maintains for this purpose. Single Touch Payroll reports are submitted at the time of each pay run, compliant with STP Phase 2. Super contributions clear via Beam, the SuperStream-compliant clearing house maintained by the major super funds.
These are not integrations we built against unofficial APIs. They are the regulator-approved pipes, used the regulator-approved way. That matters when the ATO ever has a question about a lodgement: the answer sits in their own records, not in a reconstruction.