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ATO
ATO
Released
1-1437UEH9
3 pages
PDF
The ATO disclosed aggregated data on Australia's largest self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs), showing the total assets of the top 100 funds for financial years 2022 and 2023. The top 10 funds averaged $302.5 million in assets in FY22, increasing to $422.9 million in FY23.…
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ATO
ATO
Released
1-13ZEA31B
34 pages
PDF
This is a draft consolidated taxation ruling (TR 2023/4DC1) consolidating guidance on employee classification for income tax and superannuation guarantee purposes. The ATO is updating the original TR 2023/4 and incorporating the withdrawn Superannuation Guarantee Ruling SGR…
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ATO
ATO
Released
1-13WECMG6
3 pages
PDF
The ATO upheld its initial FOI decision following an internal review request by Ben Fairless regarding documents related to how Right to Know website and OpenAustralia Foundation requests are handled (covering 1 June 2017 to 30 July 2024). The original decision granted partial…
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ATO
ATO
Released
1-13PYQHMS
43 pages
PDF
ATO documents approve international travel for three senior executives—Deputy Commissioner Hector Thompson, Belinda Darling, and Rob Heferen—to France and Norway from 11-19 May 2024. The trip's stated purpose was attending the FTA (Free Trade Agreement or similar body) Bureau in…
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ATO
ATO
Released
1-130TL3R8
26 pages
PDF
The ATO disclosed documents relating to its 2024 Senior Executive Service (SES) Conference held at the Hyatt in Canberra, a 1.5-day event attended by all SES staff—the first such gathering since 2022. The conference cost $153,952.11 (including GST), equating to $660.74 per…
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ATO
ATO
Released
1-12ZF8CQ8
3 pages
PDF
The ATO's Random Enquiry Program (REP) operational records detail findings from the 2019-20 and 2020-21 bundled surveys of 1,089 individual non-business taxpayers, used to estimate the income tax gap. The rental property stratum was intentionally overweighted at 23% of the…
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ATO
ATO
Released
1-137P974R
4 pages
PDF
This FOI decision letter from the ATO, dated 23 August 2024, concerns a request by Ben Fairless for documents from 1 June 2017 to 30 July 2024 relating to how requests made via the Right to Know website or from the OpenAustralia Foundation are handled. The ATO identified 18…
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ATO
ATO
Released
1-136YGQM2
1 page
PDF
This FOI release (request 1-136YGQM2, released 23 August 2024) is a short set of web-referenced answers rather than internal ATO files, so it contains no internal briefings, correspondence or operational records. It lists two amnesty programs in the past decade: a small business…
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ATO
ATO
Released
1-136VQ7QY
3 pages
PDF
This FOI decision letter, dated 23 August 2024, responds to a request for ATO policies and guidelines on transgender women's use of women's toilets and gender-specific facilities in departmental offices, and for measures protecting the safety of biological women in those…
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ATO
ATO
Released
1-136BRCKP
20 pages
PDF
This FOI release comprises ATO training material and guidance documents. The title indicates a training package on access to personal information under Australian Privacy Principle 12 and on processing requests under the Freedom of Information Act 1982, alongside Practice…
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ATO
ATO
Released
1-135BO41V
3 pages
PDF
This FOI decision letter, dated 23 August 2024, responds to an informal request from a member of the public seeking statistics on ATO contractor expenditure, any schema describing how those statistics are compiled (compared with full-time employee or hiring costs), and the time…
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ATO
ATO
Released
1-12R553W6
1 page
PDF
The release is a single FOI response from the Australian Taxation Office covering promotional merchandise purchased between 1 and 30 June 2024. The extracted text is badly garbled, with stray words such as "under", "Released", "FOI", "Act" and "Taxation" interleaved with the…
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ATO
ATO
Released
1-12WJNU0O
3 pages
PDF
This ATO decision letter, dated 12 August 2024, refuses an FOI request for documents defining "income", which the applicant framed around a claimed US Supreme Court ruling that wages are not income. No documents were released. The ATO refused access under subparagraph…
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ATO
ATO
Released
1-12YFL55J
3 pages
PDF
This FOI release is a decision letter from the Australian Taxation Office, dated 2 August 2024, responding to a request made on 15 July 2024 for the main document provided to new Senior Executive Service (SES) officers on commencement, setting out their pay, conditions and…
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ATO
ATO
Released
1-12EVQ09T
7 pages
PDF
This ATO taxation statistics release, a seven-page table with explanatory notes, reports on individuals holding interests in rental properties across the 1999–00 to 2021–22 income years. It counts individuals by the number of rental property interests they held, with numbers…