Practical Refusal Notice.

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The ATO issued a practical refusal notice on 17 March 2026 for a FOI request seeking documents about information-sharing arrangements between the ATO, ASIC, ACNC, and ABR, including memoranda of understanding and data-sharing agreements; internal guidance explaining how these agencies' systems exchange data; and policy documents describing how entity status changes flow between systems and how discrepancies are resolved. The ATO determined that processing the request in its current form would substantially and unreasonably divert agency resources from its other operations under section 24AA(1)(a)(i) of the FOI Act. The applicant was given 14 days to narrow their request to remove the practical refusal reason, with the ATO offering to reconsider a revised submission before making a final refusal decision.