Bilbx Learn
How we research and review these guides
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Who writes these
Hazem Elsawy
Founder, Bilbx — Perth, WA
Hazem builds Bilbx from Perth. He's a software engineer, not an accountant — these guides exist because the same questions kept coming up about receipts, warranties and what the ATO actually expects, and the answers were either buried in legislation or written for another country. Everything here is checked against what the ATO and ACCC publish, and linked so you can check it yourself.
To say the obvious thing plainly: he is not an accountant, a tax agent or a lawyer, and these pages never pretend otherwise. What sits behind them is a working life spent on receipts and the records people keep of what they bought — and having read the ATO's and the ACCC's published guidance a good deal more carefully than most people ever need to.
Where the facts come from
Primary sources only. Every rule on these pages traces back to something the regulator published — ato.gov.au for tax records, accc.gov.au and the Australian Consumer Law for returns and warranties. We link them at the foot of every article so you can check us rather than take our word for it.
We do not cite other blogs. If a claim cannot be traced to the source that actually decides it, it does not go on the page.
Every number lives in one place
Thresholds and rates change, and the usual way a guide site goes wrong is that a figure gets updated on one page and missed on four others. So the figures on this site are not typed into the articles at all — they are held in a single file that every page reads from, with the date each one was last checked and a link to the source it came from.
When a figure has not been confirmed against the current financial year, the site is built to refuse to publish a page that quotes it. We would rather send you to the ATO than print a number that is a year out of date.
Review dates, not publish dates
Each article carries the date it was last checked, not the date it was first written — that is the only one worth anything on a page about current rules. Articles are re-checked on a schedule, and the tax pages get a full pass every July when the new financial year's figures land.
What we will not do
- Give you advice. We explain published rules. We do not tell you what to claim or what to do about your own situation — that is a registered tax agent's job, and it is restricted work for good reason.
- Publish something we have not read. We use AI to help draft and structure, the same as we use it in the product. Every factual claim is then checked against the primary source by a person before it goes live. Nothing here is generated and posted.
- Pretend a competitor is worse than it is. Where we compare Bilbx to something else, we say when the comparison was made and link what it is based on.
- Invent an expert. There is one name on these pages, it belongs to a real person, and it is the person who wrote them. No stock-photo advisory board, and no credentials nobody holds.
Found something wrong?
Tell us and we will fix it, or say why we think it is right. Get in touch. Corrections to a published figure get made the same week.
General information only
Everything on Bilbx Learn is general information. It is not tax, legal or financial advice, and it does not take your circumstances into account. Bilbx is not a registered tax agent. For advice on your own situation, speak to a registered tax agent or a legal practitioner.