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The DIBP and Australian Tax Office: Data matching and information sharing
A Data Matching Programme between the Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) and the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is now gazetted DIBP share data with ATO.pdf.
Information that will be provided to the ATO by the Department of Immigration will be:
- names
- addresses
- details of visa holders,
- sponsors
- migration agents
Data will come from the financial years ending 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017.
This amounts to around 1 million people.
The ATO have produced a 'data matching protocols' page on their website which goes into more detail.
For more information the email to use is specialpurposedatasteward@ato.gov.au
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Wednesday, 21 October 2015Expect a stepping up in 457 compliance activity.
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Thursday, 22 October 2015
The Government knows what I had for breakfast already.
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Thursday, 22 October 2015
And when you go shopping they will know what you are having for breakfast tomorrow and where you bought it..........
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Data matching between government agencies such as the ATO has been going on for years, gradually increasing in scope. You use eTax? The the data you can get downloaded into your eTax file comes from employers, banks etc as part of their obligatory reporting to the ATO. I see nothing different with this new range of information. DIBP matches data with overseas Governments, hence the recent (2015) NZ arrivals being caught at the border with NZ convictions and being sent back. I just hope that there is a reasonable process to allow those caught up by this information sharing to argue their case in a reasonable time to reasonably intelligent case officers. If visa holders and RMAs stick to the rules, who should be worried.