The ATO has announced details of its proposed data matching program that will request and collect information in relation to payments made to contractors for the 2009-10 to the 2011-12 income years by businesses audited by the ATO employer obligations area. Data will also be collected from businesses being audited by the ATO employer obligations area in 2012-13.
The collected information will be electronically matched with certain sections of ATO data holdings to identify non-compliance with lodgment and reporting obligations under taxation law. Records relating to approximately 75,000 individuals and entities who have received contract payments from the employers or businesses will be matched.
A document describing this program has been prepared in consultation with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. A copy of this document is available from: Contractor payments Data Matching Program, Australian Taxation Office, GPO Box 9977, Perth WA 6848; email: nick.petrie@ato.gov.au; phone: (08) 9268 5433.
Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette No GN 39, 3 October 2012 [p 2618]
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