A new Notice of Data Matching Programme between the Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) and the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) was gazatted on 21st October 2015. The purpose of the programme is to ensure that taxpayers are correctly meeting their taxation obligations. These obligations include registration, lodgement, reporting and payment responsibilities. The DIBP will provide the ATO with names, addresses and other details of visa holders, their sponsors and migration agents for the 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16 and 2016-17 financial years. These records will be electronically matched by the ATO with certain sections of their data holdings to identify non-compliance with registration, lodgement, reporting and payment obligations under taxation laws. It is estimated that records relating to approximately 1,000,000 individuals will be provided.
More details about the programme can be found here.
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