Payments that show on it

If you’re lodging a tax return, your Centrelink payment summary details should pre-fill by late July each year. Other income and information should also pre-fill by late July. Family Tax Benefit (FTB) and Child Care Subsidy (CCS) are non-taxable. If you only got FTB and CCS from us you won’t get a Centrelink payment summary and you don’t need to include them in your tax return.

Taxable payments

Some taxable payments won’t show on Centrelink payment summaries. Find out about payments that don’t show on your Centrelink payment summary that you need to report in your tax return.

Taxable payments on Centrelink payment summaries are:

• ABSTUDY Living Allowance, if you’re 16 or older
• Age Pension
• Austudy
• a payment when someone dies
• Carer Payment, if you or the care receiver is Age Pension age
• Business Service Wage Assessment Tool Payment (BSWAT) lump sum in arrears
• Community Development Employment Program (CDEP) Participant Supplement
• Dad and Partner Pay
• Disability Support Pension, if you are of Age Pension age
• Disaster Recovery Allowance
• Education Entry Payment
• Emergency and General Assistance Payment
• Exceptional Circumstances Relief Payment
• Farm Household Allowance
• Farm Household Allowance Relief Payment
• Farm Household Allowance Supplement
• JobSeeker Payment
• Parental Leave Pay that we pay you
• Parenting Payment
• PaTH Internship Incentive - JobSeeker
• PaTH Internship Incentive - Pension
• Pensioner Partner Allowance
• Pensions Mature Age Allowance
• Special Benefit, if you’re 16 or older
• Youth Allowance, if you’re 16 or older
• Youth Disability Supplement, if you’re 16 or older, paid with Youth Allowance or ABSTUDY Living Allowance.

Carer Payment is also taxable if the person you get Carer Allowance for is of Age Pension age and you transferred from Wife Pension.

Non-taxable payments

If you only got FTB and CCS you won’t get a Centrelink payment summary and you don’t need to include them in your tax return.

The following non-taxable payments will show on your Centrelink payment summary and must be included in your tax return:

• Carer Payment, if you and all care receivers are under Age Pension age
• Disability Support Pension, if you’re under Age Pension age
• Youth Disability Supplement, when paid with Disability Support Pension
• Remote Area Allowance.

Tax year

A tax year or financial year is different to a calendar year.

A calendar year is from 1 January to 31 December. A tax year is from 1 July to 30 June the following year. For example, 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2026. We refer to this as the 2025-26 tax year or financial year.

When you lodge a tax return, it’s for income you got in the last tax year.

Example

Simmo started getting a taxable payment from us on 10 September 2025. They also did paid casual work at a café from 1 October 2025 to 15 March 2026. Simmo’s income and payment are within the 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2026 period.

Simmo will need to lodge a tax return to declare this income to the Australian Taxation Office. This means they’ll lodge a tax return for the 2025-26 tax year.

Simmo lodges their tax return in late July, after their Centrelink payment summary and café job details pre-fill in ATO myTax. Using pre-filled information helps Simmo avoid mistakes and the need to amend and re-submit their tax return.