It sounds like it might be a little messy and therefore the manual intervention. It's big $$, so they don't want to make a mistake. There are entire teams dedicated to Manual Intervention and you have to have lots of FAO experience to be in one, so at least you know it will be done properly.
It might be worth ringing to ask how long it might take, I'm not sure if there is a 'time limit' on man interventions.
when a tax return comes through that doesn't gel with estimates, or when the top up is going to be huge (as lulu mentioned) it gets diverted to the manual intervention team who go through and check everything to make sure you're not overpaid. this team are specialists, and will get your record checked as soon as they can. there are only two small teams Australia wide. there is no processing timeframe for anything referred to Manual Intervention - they get to it in order of it arriving in the queue. there are no ways to get this pushed through any quicker than it is going to be done. i know only about 3 months ago, they processed 17000 activities in 17 days!
sorry to disappoint you, but all you can do is wait it out. i would suggest contacting ATO and making a payment arrangement for your partners tax (they let you pay it off) and then make the lump sum payment when it arrives
Ah, okay, this makes sense then, thankyou BG, Lulu and Mrs M. Yep, we earned nearly 3 times less than what I estimated.
I know you probably can't answer this, Would it be possibly reasonable to expect that it might be here before Christmas in your experience BG? Yep, I totally understand that there is nothing I can do to make it speed up or anything, I guess just ime before, they did it automatically so I assumed this time would be the same, but I understand.
We've already put the tax department off for going on three years now and we can't make the payment plan, which is why we were really hoping to get this asap as they are talking about us selling assets now. Things just went unexpectedly bad.
It maaaaaay be worth a phone call to explain why you need it asap, let the know its holding up stuff for the tax etc, you miiiiiight get someone sympathetic that can help you
unfortunately, no matter how sympathetic the person you speak to, it will only be pushed through if there is another activity that is payment affecting that the MIV activity is stopping. sympathy means nothing as the consultants are not allowed to queue jump where it puts someone else further down the list without reason
I have a friend going through this same thing. Any big returns the tax dept investigates to make sure it is all in order and no mistakes have been made,
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