All Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporations must lodge a general report for each financial year unless they have received an exemption from the Registrar of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporations. Corporations must lodge the general report within 6 months of the end of the financial year. Information in the general report should be correct as at the last day of the corporation 's financial year.

Failure to lodge a general report each year this information with the Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations (ORIC) is a breach of the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 (CATSI Act).

What information is in the general report?

The general report includes 3 main categories of information:

• corporation – Australian Business Number (ABN), size, main place of business, registered office / document access address, contact details and industries.
• corporation people – contact person / secretary, directors and members.
• basic financial and employee information – income, assets, expenditure, liabilities, deductible gift recipient status and number of employees.

What information can I update through the general report?

• Financial information

What corporation information can't I update through the general report?

• Contact person/secretary and directors
• Corporation name
• General corporation details (e.g. address, phone).

How do I update information in the general report other than financial information?

Navigate back to the home page of myCorp and complete the relevant forms to update information. Once you have updated this information, please click the 'Sync' button at the top of the page to reflect any changes in your general report. Changes to corporation officers and the corporation name will not update in the general report until it is processed by an ORIC officer.

This page lists the industry sector(s) that the corporation operates in. Corporations can list more than one industry. If the corporation's industry sectors have changed, please click into the home page of myCorp and select the 'Corporation details' tab to update this information.

Once you have updated this information, please click the 'Sync' button at the top of the page to reflect any changes in your general report.

The general report must reflect the officers who were in place on the last day of the corporation's financial year (e.g. for a corporation with a standard financial year, this would be 30 June). Corporations have an obligation to complete and lodge a Notification of a change to corporation directors, contact person or secretary form within 28 days of any change to officers. Please click into the home page of myCorp and select the 'Corporation Officers' tab to complete and lodge this form.

Once you have updated this information, please click the 'Sync' button at the top of the page to reflect any changes in your general report.

The general report must reflect members on the last day of the corporation's financial year (e.g. for a corporation with a standard financial year, this would be 30 June). Please click into the home page of myCorp and select the 'Members' tab to update the corporation's list of members.

Once you have updated this information, please click the 'Sync' button at the top of the page to reflect any changes in your general report.