Budget pledges more investment into tax avoidance taskforce
The Federal Government has decided to extend the funding for the Australian Taxation Office Tax Avoidance Taskforce.
Budget 2019-20 - News, Features, and Slideshows
News about Budget 2019-20
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Budget 2019-20: Government revises regional NBN subsidy
Budget documents reveal the government will revise the cap on its yet-to-be-legislated Regional Broadband Scheme subsidy for the NBN.
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Budget 2019-20: ATO to migrate data centres, boost analytics capabilities
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is gearing up to migrate to a new data centre, with the federal budgeting earmarking $70 million over two years from 2018-19 for preparatory work.
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Budget 2019-20: Government seeks to avoid ‘censusfail’ redux
The government says it will fund efforts by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) to avoid a repetition of the 2016 Census debacle, which involved a high-profile failure of its online component.
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Government to boost fines for privacy breaches
The government says it will legislate increase the penalties that can be levied under the Privacy Act to 10 per cent of a company’s turnover, $10 million or three times the value of a benefit obtained through the misuse of information, whichever is greater, up from a current cap of $2.1 million for serious or repeated breaches.