Hi, we have been trying to lodge our BAS statements for a few months now. But Mygovid has thrown us out and haven't been able to get back in or link it to the new Mygovid app we downloaded and installed. Prior to this we had been lodging our BAS statements for around 4 years. My wife has rung the ato several times, but every time the person from the ato has said they cannot help. How do we sort this out and fix it? If the ato keeps saying they cant help us, then, i suppose it means that we will not be able to lodge the BAS statements and wont need to pay any fines applicable...Thank you.
Hi @Cobolt22
Can you provide more information about the issue you're having with myGovID? Also what is your business structure and yours and your wifes relationship to the business?
You can check the other lodgment options on our website and if necessary you can let us know if you need more time to lodge
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You can call the ATO and request that they complete your BAS lodgments via telephone, this is a service they provide, until such time you can get your myGovID issue resolved.
When calling myGovID support you are calling the ATO. The ATO contact center gives priority to ATO enquiries first. myGovID and Relationship Authorisation Manager calls are placed at the end of the call queue.
At this time 75% of myGovID calls to the ATO are terminated unanswered.
To provide feedback that will be noticed you need to provide feedback direct to Google or Apple communicating your poor support experience, or lack thereof.
Android users
- Open the Play Store
- Search for myGovID
- Select the app name to display the app and developer information
- From the top left corner of your screen select the vertical three dots
- From the menu select "Flag as inappropriate"
- From the next screen scroll to the bottom and select the radio button "Other objection"
- Communicate your poor app and support experience i.e. none at all
Apple iOS users
You will need to find the "Report a Problem", this will require accessing your Apple ID from your device so you can then complete the feedback report. This may require some creativity depending on your iOS but there is plenty of reference material online.
https://reportaproblem.apple.com
With sufficient negative feedback Google and Apple will contact myGovID and the ATO advising if the support doesn't improve it will "de-indexed" and then removed from their app stores.
Hi @Cobolt22
Can you provide more information about the issue you're having with myGovID? Also what is your business structure and yours and your wifes relationship to the business?
You can check the other lodgment options on our website and if necessary you can let us know if you need more time to lodge
Hi, my wife is the director of the company and i am the public officer/representative. Normally I go onto the computer, go to mygovid, the code screen comes up and I accept it. One time it come up and instead of accepting it I hit cancel(on the phone) as I suddenly had to go off and do something else, from then on we couldn't get back into mygovid to accept the code and continue on to do the BAS. We were told on one phone call to to start a new mygovid and link it, we did that and it didn't work either.
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