The tax cuts made by the Treasury Laws Amendment (More Cost of Living Relief) Act 2025 will apply to the 2026–27 income year resulting in updates from 1 July 2026.
The PAYGW Tax Tables for the 2026-2027 financial year have been updated to reflect changes to income tax rates for individuals and changes to the Medicare levy low-income thresholds.
The repayment income thresholds for study and training support loans have also been updated as a result of annual indexation.
The updated ATO Tax Scales for the 2026-2027 Financial Year effective 01/07/2026 are available as a zip file from the Client Service Centre under Other Downloads
Download and save the zip file to a convenient location. Open the zip file and extract the following file:
- ATO_TaxScales_2026-2027.txt
Save the extracted .txt file to a convenient location in preparation for importing into LawMaster.
The tax scales file must be imported into LawMaster prior to processing the first pay run for the financial year commencing 1 July 2026.
Note - If you uploaded the Tax Scales that were available prior to 1 July 2026 you will need to download the new version now available from Other Downloads. The new file, once unzipped, will be named ATO_TaxScales_2026-2027v2.zip.
Please follow these steps to upload the new Tax Scales if you had already uploaded the previous version.
- Remove Tax Scales (Main Menu > Payroll and Personnel > Administration) - Effective Date 01/07/2026
- List Tax Scales (Main Menu > Payroll land Personnel > Administration) - Check there are no Tax Scales with an Effective Date of 01/07/2026.
- Load (import) Tax Scales (Main Menu > Payroll land Personnel > Administration) - Upload the new 2026-2027 v2.txt Tax Scales using an Effective Date of 01/07/2026.
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