The Government announced that it will provide funding over 4 years from 2014-15 to transfer the function for taxation complaints case handling from the Office of the Commonwealth Ombudsman to the Inspector-General of Taxation.
The Government considers this will enhance the systematic review role of the Inspector-General of Taxation and provide taxpayers with more specialised and focused complaint handling for tax matters.
Source: Budget Paper No 2 [p 217]
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