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Whistleblower Richard Boyle tells court tax office work culture was ‘woeful’

Former ATO employee facing 24 charges after raising concerns publicly about aggressive pursuit of debts in 2018

The Guardian - AU

Whistleblower Richard Boyle feared ATO tactics would cause ‘suicide in community’, court hears

Boyle hopes he will be protected by public interest disclosure laws after he aired claims of aggressive tax office debt collection methods in 2018

The Guardian - AU

Whistleblower Richard Boyle tells of PTSD developed from 'gobsmacking' ATO work

Former tax officer Richard Boyle tells a South Australian court of some of the alleged directives he disagreed with while working at the ATO, including one he was worried would cause suicide and death "on a massive scale".

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Whistleblower case stalls over legal issue

Action by a tax office whistleblower to try to block his prosecution has been stalled after a judge refused to proceed without the facts of the case before her.

AAP

Call to end ATO whistleblower prosecution

The Human Rights Law Centre has called on the Commonwealth to withdraw its prosecution of tax office whistleblower Richard Boyle.

AAP

Accountants report spike in hackers lodging false tax returns, superannuation claims

With almost half the adult population of Australia affected by the Optus security breach, questions are swirling about how stolen identity data can be misused.

ABC News

Court document filed by ATO whistleblower as part of immunity application details 'bad culture' at department

South Australian whistleblower Richard Boyle has accused the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) in court documents of being "callous" after taxpayer threats of suicide went ignored by senior Adelaide staff members.

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Whistleblower claims ATO was ‘callous’ when taxpayer said he was ‘losing will to live’ over debts

Richard Boyle alleges tax office blocked him from helping individuals and one senior staff member said ‘I am sick of taxpayers threatening suicide’

The Guardian - AU

Are Australia’s whistleblowing laws fit for purpose? A former tax officer’s hearing may tell us

Richard Boyle will try to convince a court he should be protected by the Public Interest Disclosure Act. If he fails, the calls for a legal overhaul of whistleblower protections will likely be overwhelming

The Guardian - AU

Courts lift suppression orders on ATO whistleblower Richard Boyle’s landmark case

Boyle took unprecedented step of invoking Australia’s whistleblower protections after exposing tax agency’s aggressive debt collecting practices in 2018

The Guardian - AU

Major funds circling ATO building despite confirmed move

The seller could fetch around $300 million for the prominent Civic site.

The Canberra Times

'A chilling example': Dreyfus urged to drop ATO whistleblower case

The whistleblower is facing life in prison for revealing harsh debt recovery practices by the ATO.

The Canberra Times

Selling your investment property? Here’s what to consider

Obviously, when selling an investment property, your primary consideration should be obtaining the best price. But there are plenty of other factors.

The New Daily

Australians raided $1.6 billion in superannuation savings to pay for health care

Australians raided almost $1.6 billion from their own superannuation accounts to pay for treatments including dental, IVF and elective surgery in the past three years, almost 20 times more than a decade ago.

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Qld mother-of-five jailed over $200k fraud

A woman who obtained nearly $200,000 from the government by forging documents was blocked by the ATO in her attempts to get a further half a million dollars.

ABC News

Fewer than 120,000 people inhabit Kiribati yet they apparently hold $682m in Australian banks

Fewer than 120,000 people inhabit Kiribati and the median household income is about $12,000. Yet data released by the Australian Taxation Office reveals $682 million in Australian bank accounts belong to foreign tax residents from the tiny Pacific nation.

The New Daily

Raiding retirement: How a million Australians emptied their super fund during COVID-19

Around $38 billion was withdrawn from super funds as emergency payments and about a million people cleaned out their entire retirement savings.

AAP

Accountant's 'misguided' loyalty to client

A senior tax accountant has been sentenced to a two-year intensive corrections order for lying to the Australian Taxation Office about a client.

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ATO reveals nation's highest earning areas

Australia's highest earning area has been revealed as the Perth postcode that takes in Cottesloe and Peppermint Grove, according to new tax data.

The Conversation

Tax office whistleblowing saga points to reforms needed in three vital areas

Last Friday’s twist in the long prosecution of Australian Taxation Office whistleblower Richard Boyle – now headed for its fifth year – brings into relief the serious flaws in our nation’s whistleblowing laws.

The Canberra Times

Jobs on offer at ATO for Canberra school leavers

Want a starting salary of almost $51,000 plus super?

ABC News

The 60 millionaires who paid no tax and the richest and poorest postcodes revealed

Sixty people earned more than $1 million but paid no tax in 2019-20, and the country's lowest incomes have been recorded in regional NSW, according to the ATO's latest taxation statistics.

The New Daily

Michael Pascoe: The professional classes make billion-dollar tax rorts possible

An army of very highly paid lawyers and accountants are beavering away at ripping off the Commonwealth, writes Michael Pascoe.

The New Daily

‘Dangerous’: ATO hands out $5.7 billion in tax refunds in July as inflation soars

The federal government has paid out $5.7 billion in tax refunds to households in July amid warnings the stimulus will worsen soaring inflation.

The New Daily

‘Fleecing the public’: Labor puts corporate giants on notice as Rio Tinto coughs up $1 billion in tax

Corporate giants failing to pay their fair share of tax have been put on notice as Labor prepares to introduce a crackdown on multinational tax dodgers.

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