Pay on the way for IT contractors on Plutus Payroll’s books
The end may be in sight for local IT contractors whose pay has been held up during Plutus Payroll’s legal wrangles with the ATO.
The end may be in sight for local IT contractors whose pay has been held up during Plutus Payroll’s legal wrangles with the ATO.
Google Australia is set to lock horns with the ATO after being issued with an amended tax bill following financial audits by the Australian tax collector.
The ATO has revealed it is working with its technology partner, HPE, to find a "way forward" following the failure of storage hardware last year.
Federal Government agencies have come under scrutiny from the national auditor for failing to properly manage contracts with IT suppliers.
The storage drives responsible for the series of outages at The Australian Tax Office (ATO) website will be sent back to Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) headquarters to determine the cause of the problem.
Huge run of fake ATO emails putting computers at risk across the country.
Commonwealth Treasury has tapped Eamonn Rooney as its new CIO, a former gateway review team leader for the Department of Finance who provided recommendations to agency heads and Deputy Secretaries regarding complex and high risk ICT initiatives.
Australia's Commissioner of Taxation has suggested that HPE has “failed” to reliably provide the ATO with its contracted services.
The ATO is bringing services back online following a weekend-long marathon effort working with HPE engineers to replace failed hardware and restore systems.
HPE technicians have been burning the midnight oil with ATO staff to help the agency complete a major replacement of its failed hardware.
Answers to lingering questions over how the ATO's systems went down following a hardware failure are set to be revealed in March.
There is no point putting “lipstick on a pig” by implementing online transactional systems using tired backend infrastructure, says Ian Brightwell.
Over a month after the hardware failure that took its systems offline, the ATO is still working to straighten out the kinks left by the “unprecedented” event.
HPE has launched an internal investigation into the cause of the hardware failure behind the unprecedented system outage which hit the ATO on 12 December.
The Australian Tax Office will set up an independent review to determine why the agency suffered what commissioner of taxation, Chris Jordan, has described as its ‘worst unplanned system outage in recent memory.’