Tag: Australian Tax Office

Defence to wear new APS contractor cuts

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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...

First director faces court over ATO ID scheme breach

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Australia’s corporate watchdog has launched first-of-its-kind legal action against an unnamed company director for allegedly failing to sign up to the federal government’s compulsory director ID program. The director,...

New ATO mainframe pushes IBM deal to $900m in nine months

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IBM has secured almost $900 million in federal work through its renewed whole-of-government sourcing agreement in less than nine months, with a new mainframe at the Tax Office pushing...

Tax Office exits Chinese-owned data centre

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After a two-year migration, the Tax Office has removed the last of its data and assets from a Chinese-owned data centre in Sydney, which had long been blacklisted by...

Turnbull-era tech procurement reforms bearing fruit

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Procurement reforms that capped tech contracts at $100 million broke the stranglehold of big conglomerates and large multinationals in Canberra and opened the door to smaller Australian companies securing...

EY’s ATO analytics work bill almost doubles to $85m

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Ernst & Young will be paid $3.3 million per month over the next year to continue its data and analytics work at the Australian Taxation Office, with the lucrative...

$80m government cyber hubs pilot axed

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A Coalition-era program to centralise federal government networks through hubs in Canberra’s biggest agencies has been axed after an $80 million pilot, with a series of new initiatives to...

$32m extension to Tax Office cyber deal

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The Tax Office has renewed its main cybersecurity support deal with Macquarie Telecom’s government arm at a cost of $32.7 million, as it battles as many as three million...