This page contains information and artefacts for Software Developers who have or are interested in developing web services that enable a business or their registered intermediary the ability to lodge and revise Activity Statements (AS) with the ATO.
As at 2023, this service is only available via the SBR ebMS3 (SBR2) platform in an XML format.
The ATO provides a number of common artefacts and reference documents to support DSPs (such as the ATO Service Registry and the ATO Service Support Versioning Strategy). These can be found here.
Service Suite: Activity Statements (AS) 2025
Service Name: Activity Statements (AS)
| Service version | 0004.2025 |
|---|---|
| Service actions |
Get - This interaction enables a business or intermediary to request a specific AS with the correct obligations for the business, pre-filled with data from the ATO. Validate - Allows an initiating party to request pre-submission validation of an AS without lodging the statement. Submit - Allows an initiating party to lodge an AS for processing by the ATO in real time. |
AS.0004 (2025)
| Name | Version number | Status | Size | Published date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ATO AS.0004 2025 Package v0.2 Contents (DOCX) | 0.2 | Draft | 216KB | 5 March 2025 |
| ATO AS.0004 2025 Package v0.2 (ZIP) | 0.2 | Draft | 519KB | 5 March 2025 |
SBR ebMS3 webservices artefacts
The Australian Taxation Office has developed an ebMS/AS4 implementation extending on the SBR initiative to simplify Business to Government reporting obligations and aligning with the messaging standards chosen for Superannuation Reform. While this implementation replaces the existing SBR message wrapping, it does not replace the eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) body provided in SBR web services, in fact the ATO implementation of the new system reuses the existing SBR XBRL message body for the majority of the services provided in the new format.
The following information describes how to implement web services consuming the ebMS3/AS4 messaging standard (SBR ebMS3).
- SBR ebMS3 web service implementation guide
The SBR ebMS3 web service implementation guide (WIG) describes common technical components and services that are re-used by all business services. The common services include whole of government gateways that expose services and supports the protocol for message exchange, standard message types, standard response time service levels, standard message structures, a security token service, and a standardised approach to handling business error conditions and transport exceptions.
There is a separate SBR Core Services WIG. - SBR ebMS3 software developer kit guide
The SBR ebMS3 software developer kit (SDK) guide identifies the key components and functionality that comprise the SDK solution. Some of these components are re-used from the previously released SBR Core Services SDK and hence the reader is pointed to the reference for existing documentation. For the new components, this document will outline the usage details and the API specification (where applicable).
| Name | Version number | Status | Size | Published date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SBR ebMS3 Web Services Implementation-Guide (DOCX) | 1.7 | Final | 1.96MB | 14 December 2017 |
| SBR ebMS3 SDK Developer Guide (DOCX) | 1.4 | Final | 1.87MB | 13 August 2020 |