If you owe us money at tax time, we may use your tax refund to pay it back.

For most people, we won’t do this if you’re getting a payment from us.

If you get Family Tax Benefit or Child Care Subsidy, we may still use your tax refund to repay a debt.

We may do this even if you have a repayment arrangement in place or your repayments have been paused due to short term hardship.

To find out how this will affect you before you lodge your tax return, go to how we recover debts at tax time.