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ATO CIO: Tax phishing sites are 'a fact of life'

As a fresh round of phishing spam targets Australian tax payers, the ATO's CIO has warned fake Web sites designed to steal Australian credit card and personal details are "a fact of life". The latest phishing scam, detected by security company Trend Micro, aims to trick recipients into...

Posted to Accountants Newswire (Forum) by futurewa on 02-17-2009
D'Ascenzo: Read p23 of security review

Following yesterday's admission by the Australian Taxation Office that its courier had lost a CD containing the details of 3,000 self-managed super funds, it wants to review how it handles information. My suggestion: go back to the review completed in April. I could see tax commissioner Michael D'Ascenzo...

Posted to Accountants Newswire (Forum) by futurewa on 11-03-2008
ATO admits callers are 'chopped off'

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is trying to fix two "annoying" features that clients face when they attempt to call for advice when its staff are too busy — a persistent busy tone or being "chopped off" the line without an explanation. When call centre queues for any of the...

Posted to Accountants Newswire (Forum) by futurewa on 08-03-2008
Lockheed Martin in $1bn ATO race

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has picked a shortlist of five vendors, including aerospace manufacturer Lockheed Martin Australia, to compete for a key part of the agency's AU$1 billion technology outsourcing work. CSC, EDS, Telstra-owned KAZ Group, Lockheed Martin Australia and Unisys have...

Posted to Accountants Newswire (Forum) by futurewa on 08-03-2008
ATO $450m IT upgrade disrupts tax refunds

The Australian Tax Office is warning of lengthy disruptions to its Tax Agent and Business Portal during Easter 2008 as it implements the first phase of its A$450 million, three-year long Change Program. Read more

Posted to Accountants Newswire (Forum) by futurewa on 12-12-2007
ATO & Treasury - SBR/XBRL Conference

The full proceedings are now available online Click here This is the heart of the ATO change program - read about the ATO & XBRL here

Posted to Accounting Technology (Forum) by futurewa on 12-11-2007
ATO Warns of Bogus Email Offering Rebate

Watch out! The scam artists are at it again; this time using bogus ATO emails to request money transfers. Read more here..

Posted to Accountants Newswire (Forum) by futurewa on 11-29-2007
ATO Change Program - Bigger than Introduction of GST.

The ATO is moving forward with their change program. Between 2008-2010 all accounting software will need to be XBRL GL compliant. www.xbrl.org (extensible business reporting language) the software has to be built using standard taxonomies (A special taxonomy has already been designed to support collation...

Posted to Australian Public Practice Accounting Blog (Weblog) by futurewa on 09-19-2007
Re: Data Tagging Technologies (Metadata) & the Australian Taxation Office

Information is tagged using metadata. Metadata is information about information. A number on its' own is meaningless. Look at this number - 12541 Now look at it again, but this time is has information attached, supplying information about it.<PAYG_INSTALMENT>12541</PAYG_INSTALMENT> With...

Posted to Accounting Technology (Forum) by admin on 09-16-2007

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