If you’ve already tracked your home office hours using an Excel logbook, you don’t need to enter every single day or week manually into TaxTank. Instead, you can add a bulk entry that sums up your total hours — saving time and keeping your records tidy.
Here’s how to do it:
Calculate Your Total Hours
Open your Excel logbook and add up all the home office hours you’ve recorded for the relevant period (e.g. last financial year).Create a Single Entry
Rather than entering each day or week individually, just add one entry with the total number of hours worked from home. This will reflect your full home office usage in one go.Upload Your Excel Logbook to Spare Tank
Head to Spare Tank and upload a copy of your Excel logbook. This ensures your records are stored safely in case the ATO ever requests evidence. Keeping this on file helps with compliance and peace of mind.Moving Forward — Use the Home Office Diary
This bulk entry method is best suited for those new to TaxTank who already have an existing logbook. From here on, we recommend using the built-in Home Office Diary feature. It’s designed to make tracking your hours easy and keeps everything in one place — no spreadsheets required.
Using this method means you can quickly allocate your past home office hours in TaxTank without the manual data entry — while still keeping everything audit-ready and up to date moving forward.