Why the ATO is wrong to go after lawyers – ‘sabre rattling’ regarding legal professional privilege claims

On 20 June 2019, the Australian Financial Review published an article entitled: ‘Why the ATO is wrong to go after lawyers’, written by Clayton Utz partner: Ms Amber Augustin. The article contains a link, to another AFR article, which gives the ATO’s perspective on impediments to its investigations. But Amber goes on to explain that…