No data loss during storage outage, ATO says
The Australian Taxation Office says that no data has been lost during the agency’s extended outage as a result of the failure of a storage system.
The Australian Taxation Office says that no data has been lost during the agency’s extended outage as a result of the failure of a storage system.
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.
The Australian Taxation Office is working to restore critical systems, such as the Tax Agent Portal, by lunchtime today, according to acting ATO CIO Steve Hamilton.
The Australian Taxation Office’s online services have been downed by what a spokesperson for the agency has described as a “hardware issue”
A spokesperson for the Australian Taxation Office has acknowledged that some people experienced “slowness” yesterday when attempting to file their tax returns using the ATO’s online service.
Most of Medibank’s customers will be unable to file their tax returns with the Australian Taxation Office until later this month due to a tech glitch, the health insurer revealed today.
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.
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.
The government will change the tax treatment of transactions involving digital currencies such as Bitcoin, Treasurer Scott Morrison announced today.
The Australian Taxation Office has published its first corporate tax transparency report.
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.
The Australian Taxation Office has begun a public consultation on its shift to digital by default.
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has reassured Australians that it has fixed an issue which meant private tax records could potentially be accessed by third parties.
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.
The Australian Taxation Office will examine the rules governing the tax treatment of computers, the agency has revealed.