The tax return must have a status of Ready to lodge.

If you sent the return to your client for review via the portal, and if the client approved the return via the portal, the status of a tax return is automatically updated to Ready to lodge.

If you've sent the tax return to your client manually, when the client sends the signed return back to you, you need to update the status individually or in bulk:

• To update individually: Open the return and click Client approved & signed. This updates the status of the return to Ready to lodge. You need to do this for each tax return that is sent and signed manually.

• To update in bulk:

  1. Go to Compliance in either All clients or client-centric view.

  2. Select the Pending signature status tab and either:

     • select the checkboxes next to each tax return that you want to mark as ready to lodge

     • if you're in All clients view, select the checkbox next to the Client name column header to mark all tax returns as ready to lodge.

  3. Click Ready to lodge.

1. Go to Compliance in either All clients or client-centric view.
2. Select the Ready to lodge status tab. You'll see a list of tax returns with checkboxes next to them.
   
3. Either:
   • select the checkboxes next to each tax return that you want to lodge
   • if you're in All clients view, to select all tax returns that are ready to lodge, select the checkbox next to the Client name column header.
   The Lodge button and the number of selected tax returns are displayed above the list of returns.
   
4. Click Lodge. The Agent Declaration confirmation dialog window appears.
   

5. Click Accept and lodge.

   A message confirming that the returns were sent is displayed at the top of the page. The returns won't be lodged or rejected until the ATO has finished processing the returns.
   When you reload or return to the page, any returns that have finished being sent are cleared from the list.
   The returns you selected go through the bulk sending process one at a time. So if you selected many returns to bulk send, they may not all have finished being sent yet when you refresh.
   After the ATO has processed the returns, the returns will have either a Lodged or Rejected status. You can select the Lodged or Rejected status tabs above the Compliance list to display only the returns with that status. You can also see more details about the lodgment status when you open individual returns.
   

1. Go to Compliance and open a tax return.

2. Click Lodge to ATO. The return is sent.

   After the ATO has processed the returns, the returns will have either a Lodged or Rejected status. You can select the Lodged or Rejected status tabs above the Compliance list to display only the returns with that status. You can also see more details about the lodgment status when you open individual returns.