We applied online using this website: www.ato.gov.au

This will appear in the window after applying a TFN…

You have successfully submitted an application for a Tax File Number with the Australian Taxation Office.

Your receipt for this application is DIAC123456789
please make a note of this receipt number for any inquiries you may have about the status of your TFN application.

If you have not received your tax file number within 28 days of this application, please phone 132861.

It is not compulsory to quote your tax file number to anyone. However, if you do not supply your tax file number to your payer within 28 days of commencing a new job, your payer must withhold 46.5% if you are a resident and 45% if you are a non-resident from any payments made to you after this period.

A letter advising you of your TFN will be sent to the postal address you have provided.

After a week, TADA! We already received a mail w/ our Tax File Number on it...

The TFN is needed on opening a Bank account including interest on savings accounts, salary from a job, payments from the government,

Here are some contact details on registering / applying a TFN

Telephone:                              13 2861

In person:                                 ATO Shopfront locations

Centrelink Shopfront locations