Locals may be missing out on a tax refund this tax time.

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has released information that during the last tax time around 200,000 taxpayers failed to lodge tax returns, even though they were likely to have received a refund.

Assistant Commissioner Kath Anderson said many salaries and wage earners end up with a tax refund, but some are missing out on their money because they haven’t lodged. “Unfortunately, the tax office can’t return your money until you lodge a tax return,” she said. “We estimate there are 200,000 individual salary and wage earners who are likely to have been either due to a refund or owed a small amount of tax, but who had not lodged a tax return. Collectively, these clients have millions of dollars of unclaimed refunds.”