Every entry below is the rule as Australia publishes it. It is a reference, not a calendar: where a deadline runs from something only you know, this page says so instead of showing a date.
This is the rule as published by the registry, checked against the primary source on the date shown. It is not your filing date. Where a deadline runs from incorporation, from a fiscal year the company itself elects, or from an event only you know about, no date can be derived here at all — the figure you see is the formula, not the answer. Extensions, transitional regimes and entity-specific exemptions are not reflected. Confirm with the registry before you rely on a date.
An Australian company has two year ends, and they are set by different rules. For the companies registry the financial year is derived from the date of registration: the first financial year begins on the day the company is registered and, as the Australian Securities and Investments Commission puts it, directors may make it shorter or longer but it «must not be more than 18 months». Each later financial year begins at the end of the previous one and runs twelve months. A company may depart from that twelve months only on the grounds the Commission lists, and for those grounds it needs no permission, only notice in writing stating the old and new start and end dates and the ground relied on: a change of «no more and no less than 7 days» to align the year with week-based internal reporting; a shorter year where none has been used in the previous five years and the change is made in good faith in the company's best interests; synchronisation with consolidated entities, once within twelve months of the need and to a maximum of eighteen months; synchronisation with a foreign parent, to the same maximum. Where twelve months would be an unreasonable burden the company must apply to the Commission. For income tax the year of income ends on 30 June unless the Australian Taxation Office approves a substituted accounting period, and the Office then counts the return from that approved year end instead. The consequence for the duties below is that only one of them is anchored to the financial year at all: the financial report is counted from the end of it, and until the company's own year end is supplied no date can be derived for that filing. The annual review duties are not on this clock — they run from the anniversary of registration and do not move when the financial year changes. The income tax return is a fixed calendar date whose number depends on the company's own lodgment history and size, and the activity statement runs on a tax period the Office allocates.