ATO Treasury portfolio
Australian Taxation Office
Administers the tax system and major parts of the superannuation system.
Releases by month
| Month | Releases |
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| Nov 2024 | 4 |
| Dec 2024 | 2 |
| Jan 2025 | 3 |
| Feb 2025 | 4 |
| Mar 2025 | 6 |
| Apr 2025 | 3 |
| May 2025 | 6 |
| Jun 2025 | 7 |
| Jul 2025 | 3 |
| Aug 2025 | 11 |
| Sep 2025 | 7 |
| Oct 2025 | 8 |
| Nov 2025 | 5 |
| Dec 2025 | 10 |
| Jan 2026 | 5 |
| Feb 2026 | 3 |
| Mar 2026 | 3 |
| Apr 2026 | 8 |
| May 2026 | 6 |
| Jun 2026 | 6 |
| Jul 2026 | 7 |
| Aug 2026 | 5 |
| Sep 2026 | 7 |
| Oct 2026 | 10 |
Latest releases
All 155 releases from ATO, with filters-
ATO Released
Decision letter
This decision letter concerns an FOI request for correspondence between the ATO and Palantir Technologies since May 2020, and documents since 2022 on how the ATO could use Palantir's Foundry platform for fraud detection. The ATO identified fourteen documents, all of which were…
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ATO Released
Practical refusal notice
This document is a notice of intention to refuse an FOI request, dated 20 October 2026, from the ATO's Office of General Counsel. It concerns a request for documents on the proposed relocation of the ATO's Adelaide office from 26 Franklin Street to Festival Tower Two, Festival…
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ATO Released
Decision letter
This FOI decision letter, dated 9 October 2026, concerns a request for Ministerial briefs, executive briefs, issue briefs and strategic advice from 1 January 2022 onwards on unitary taxation and formulary apportionment. No documents were released. The ATO refused access under…
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ATO Released
Decision letter. Most recent internal ATO AI use case register
This FOI release is a decision letter from the ATO dated 9 October 2026, granting partial access to one document: the most recent internal Artificial Intelligence Use Case Register or equivalent record of in-scope AI use cases, held by the Smarter Data business area. The letter…
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ATO Released
ATO internal procedure for issuing a Proof of Debt (POD)
This FOI release is an ATO internal operational procedure, held on the agency's electronic knowledge management system, for issuing a Proof of Debt (POD) letter in insolvency matters. It sets out ten tasks in the BulLetS letter system, covering entity and administrator details…
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ATO Released
Instrument of General Authorisations – Individuals and Intermediaries – 24 July 2020
This release is an Instrument of General Authorisations for the ATO's Individuals and Intermediaries business line, signed in Perth on 24 July 2020 by Deputy Commissioner Hoa Wood. It is a formal delegation instrument rather than operational guidance or correspondence. It…
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ATO Released
ATO expenditure with the Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI) from 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2026
This release is a single table of ATO expenditure with the Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI) across financial years 2020-21 to 2025-26, rather than policy guidance, compliance briefs or correspondence. Total spending was $878,521 (GST inclusive). Payments made directly…
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ATO Released
The number of restricted ATO records & the number of employees with access to these records
This FOI release is a one-page statistical document created under section 17 of the Freedom of Information Act 1982, responding to a request for the number of restricted ATO records and the number of staff with access to them. As at 31 August 2026, the ATO reported 31,089…
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ATO Released
Internal ATO procedures for handling taxpayer complaints
This release comprises internal ATO operational guidance on handling taxpayer complaints, including the complaint guidelines, job aids and reference guides for Business Service Line (BSL) managed, cross-BSL and escalated complaints. It sets out the acknowledgment, ongoing…
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ATO Released
Internal ATO procedures regarding vacancy fee waiver requests – deemed returns
This release is an internal ATO procedures template, version 1.9 dated 22 November 2023, setting out how EL1 technical staff assess requests to waive the foreign investment vacancy fee where the liability arose from a "deemed" vacancy fee return, meaning the foreign owner failed…
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ATO Released
Internal ATO procedure regarding how to grant compromised taxpayers access to online services for individuals
This FOI release comprises two extracts from the ATO's internal procedure guidance (intranet-style pages) on managing security measures and Confirmed Compromised Accounting Treatments (CCATs) for taxpayers at increased risk of unauthorised access to Online services for…
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ATO Released
Information that was publicly available about the First Home Super Saver (FHSS) Scheme as at 21 November 2019
This FOI release is a copy of the ATO's public web guidance on the First Home Super Saver (FHSS) scheme, as it stood on 21 November 2019, rather than internal correspondence or compliance material. It explains how first home buyers can make voluntary concessional and…
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ATO Released
Internal ATO procedure for issuing a Departure prohibition order (DPO)
This FOI release comprises two internal ATO intranet guidance pages: a procedure for preparing, issuing, varying or renewing Departure Prohibition Orders (DPOs), last published 30 June 2026, and a companion guidelines page on DPOs, last published 19 September 2025. Both are…
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ATO Released
Practical refusal notice
This release is a notice of intention to refuse under the FOI Act, issued by the ATO's Office of General Counsel on 9 September 2026. It concerns a request for all prompts, inputs and Microsoft Copilot responses across the agency for 1 to 31 July 2026, plus associated metadata.…
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ATO Released
Illicit tobacco governance documents
The release, titled "Illicit tobacco governance documents", comprises an ATO internal email dated November 2016 transmitting an updated draft ATO submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement inquiry into illicit tobacco, with tracked changes. The submission…
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ATO Released
ATO internal guidance on issuing DPNs to bankrupt directors
This FOI release comprises two versions of ATO internal Enterprise Knowledge Management FAQ pages on director penalty notices (DPNs): one on the DPN FAQ itself (version 18.0, April 2026) and one on DPN enquiries (version 59.0, April 2026). The guidance explains that a DPN can…
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ATO Released
Table of figures containing breakdown of ATO Plant and Equipment and total IT staff benefits (broken down into employee and contractors/consultants)
This FOI release (FOI-2026-01055) comprises three tables of ATO data: a breakdown of plant and equipment from Note 4A of the published annual financial statements for 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25, and figures on IT staff costs. Plant and equipment closed at $174.998 million at…
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ATO Released
ATO staff leave between 22 June 2026 and 3 July 2026
This FOI release is a two-page operational record showing daily ATO staff absences across ten business days from 22 June to 3 July 2026, broken down by leave type. It is a statistical table rather than policy guidance, compliance material or correspondence, and it does not…
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ATO Released
Decision letter. The ATO’s internal guidance to all ATO employees on employee digital monitoring and surveillance
This FOI decision letter (FOI-2026-00793, dated 28 August 2026) responds to a request for the most recent internal ATO guidance given to all employees on digital monitoring and workplace surveillance, including keystroke logging, mouse tracking, screenshot capture and webcam…
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ATO Released
Documents relating to the ATO’s contract with Accenture (CN3990470-A4)
The release comprises procurement and contract documents from the ATO's Digital Identity Services branch concerning a competitive approach to market (RFQ026/RFQ026A) for resources to deliver the 2023/24 Digital Identity program of work. It includes a procurement plan, a…