this issue. Understanding what your tax obligations are is a must for ensuring accurate reporting, but knowing what concessions are available is just as important. A good place to start is by consulting an expert -- your accountant should be able to give you an overview of what rebates and concessions you are legitimately entitled to. Alternatively, the ATO runs a free national seminar program for people who are new to business and covers off topics like this. Another glaring result from our recent tax time survey was that a lot of small business owners (more than one third) still resort to keeping receipts in a shoebox. This may account for why the majority of business owners admit to having lost receipts for business expenses like petrol and stationery. Ironically, those younger, more tech-savvy business owners are the most likely to store their receipts in a shoebox. While 60 percent of 'shoeboxers' are worried about staying on top of their receipts, this compares to just 40 percent of those who log their receipts electronically and 36 percent who use specialist software. In an age where technologies have been developed to help make life easier, these results are surprising and demonstrate that life can be made easier with a little bit of organisation. As 30 June approaches, tax reporting continues to be a source of stress for the vast majority of small business owners. In fact, most would prefer to be doing something else such as catching up with filing, chasing