Published: October 22, 2018
IGT says staff should be made to keep notes of requests made by one ATO officer to another to access taxpayer information
An independent investigation has recommended Australian Tax Office staff should be required to make notes of any request from a colleague for help accessing a specific taxpayer’s information, after last year’s multimillion-dollar fraud involving a senior ATO official.
The inspector general of taxation (IGT) has said concerns have been raised that certain taxpayers may have received favourable treatment in ATO audits and disputes after the taxpayer’s representative directly contacted a more senior officer with whom they had a pre-existing relationship.
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