Building on yesterday’s awesome news, I finally got a follow up call from the ATO today and yes, there was some weirdass error by my super where they definitely did not send through any information the first time (not even the notice of intent to claim; the deduction was missing entirely), and I was told that they are actually legally required to do it within 10 business days, so they 100% messed up as by the time I did my tax return it should’ve been done…

And even then, trying to check it on my own is a pain as as even after the super fund does submit the data (which they did do right after I called them last week to go WTF), it can ages for it to show up on my ATO portal - it’s been over a week, and I can’t still see any contribution on my end - but the ATO dude could see it on his end, and only because he did a deep-dive into the raw data, and that’s because the case was escalated to that level, so…

Long story short, at least it’s all sorted out now, and I will get an updated tax assessment in about 5-7 business days with a refund of ~$950 like I expected to, instead of a tax bill of $2.5k like I currently have. SIGH.

Will have to draft up a stern email to the super about please not letting it happen again kthx.