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  • Failover failure at ATO

    The failure of a new storage system rolled out last year is behind the Australian Taxation Office’s current tech problems, which have seen the agency’s website and online services rendered inaccessible.

  • ATO boosts MyTax processing capacity

    The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has put measures in place that it hopes will prevent a repeat of last year’s tax-time woes, when its online MyTax application struggled to keep up with the end of financial year load.

  • ATO ditches E-tax

    The Australian Taxation Office has announced that it will no longer support lodgement using the E-tax application. Instead, all individuals preparing their own tax return will have to lodge it using the ATO’s online MyTax application.

  • MYEFO: Government details shared services savings

    The government is aiming to save money with shared services consolidation and rake in more revenue by boosting the Australian Taxation Office’s (ATO) data analytics capabilities, the Mid-year Economic and Fiscal Outlook has revealed.

  • Inquiry recommends radical shakeup of Australian bitcoin laws

    A Senate inquiry has recommended a major shift in the regulatory treatment of digital currencies. The change would remove what advocates of bitcoin have claimed is a major regulatory fetter to the development of Australian businesses based on the crypto-currency.

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