Tag: ATO

Govt’s online identity app gets a rebrand

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Australian government’s digital identity app will be rebranded within months to avoid confusion with the popular services app ahead of the mass expansion of a $1 billion national...

Gig Guide: Former ServicesAus boss joins ATO review

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Former Services Australia chief executive Rebecca Skinner has been brought in to help deliver the Australian Taxation Office’s first capability review in a decade. Ms Skinner, who stepped down from...

AI is scaling both opportunity and risk at the ATO

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
AI technologies have helped the tax office raise hundreds of millions of dollars in additional revenue, but are also giving adversaries new tools to launch cyber attacks and turbocharge...

Accenture hits $2.5b in tax office tech work

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The tax office will pay Accenture $45 million a year to manage its enterprise operations, app development, infrastructure and DevOps, pushing the tech services giant’s total work for the...

ATO moves to quell concerns over RDTI ruling

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Tax Office will only make a ruling on the eligibility of activities under the research and development tax incentive in “exceptional cases” and will aim to still consult...

New R&D tax ruling ‘unwinds 40 years of convention’

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
A new ruling allowing the tax office to assess the eligibility of activities under the research and development tax incentive (RDTI) has “muddied the waters” of the scheme and...

Defence to wear new APS contractor cuts

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The Defence department will need to find more than $270 million in savings over the next four years as part of the Albanese government’s extended purge of contractors and...

EY’s ATO big data deal grows $47m in a year

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Big four consulting firm EY will be paid another $7.7 million to provide IT data and analytics services to the tax office after it extended a lucrative contract that...

ASIC sets sights on business ‘data spine’

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australia’s corporate watchdog has shed light on ongoing efforts to investigate a ‘data spine’ of business and company data, one of the core benefits of the registry overhaul scrapped...