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• ATO goes to market for fresh IT skills

  ​The Australian Taxation Office has called on suppliers to help it fill a new procurement panel aimed at filling out its ranks of contingent IT services professionals.

• ATO systems outage audit prompts IT supplier SLA scrutiny

  Audit points to "inadequacies" in the ATO's business continuity management planning relating to critical infrastructure.

• ​BUDGET 2017: Government removing GST on Bitcoin

  Digital currencies such as Bitcoin will no longer be subject to the GST, the federal government announced during last night’s budget.

• ATO looks for "way forward" with HPE after storage hardware failure

  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.

• ​“High-risk” ATO scam email hits Aussie inboxes

  Huge run of fake ATO emails putting computers at risk across the country.

• HPE called out over service “failure” after ATO systems outage

  Australia's Commissioner of Taxation has suggested that HPE has “failed” to reliably provide the ATO with its contracted services.

• ​‘Worst unplanned system outage in recent memory’: Commissioner of taxation

  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.’

• ​The tech companies that paid zero tax in Australia last year

  Several big multinational technology companies paid no tax in Australia during the 2014-15 financial year, the Australian Tax Office’s annual corporate tax transparency report has revealed.

• ​Budget 2016: Taskforce to crack down on tax avoidance

  The government is creating a new operational taskforce of more than 1,000 specialist staff at the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) to prosecute companies, multinationals and high wealth individuals who are not paying enough tax.

• ​ATO gets ready for digital by default

  The Australian Taxation Office on Monday asked for community consultation on a ‘digital by default’ initiative aimed at improving the way taxpayers interact with the organisation.
  

• Spammers target Aussies at tax time

  Cyber crooks are impersonating representatives from the Australian Taxation Office through malicious spam campaigns and telephone scams targeting people at tax time.
  

• ATO renews voice and data contract with Optus

  The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has chosen to extend its managed services contract with Optus Business until June 2018.
  

• Digital brokers could fix poor government service delivery

  Employing digital service brokers to deliver online government services for citizens has been flagged as a way to repair the public sector’s bad reputation for service delivery.
  

• ATO to save $4M in IT contractor overhaul

  The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is building a new IT contractor panel designed to slash red tape and save the agency up to $4 million annually by improving processes and cutting supplier costs.
  

• ATO to overhaul IT contractors

  The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) wants to revamp its IT contractor recruitment methods, which it describes as “inefficient, costly and unnecessarily complex".