Tag: Compliance

Policy

‘Flawed and dangerous’ welfare compliance reboot

Some of Australia’s most severe automated welfare compliance penalties will resume next week, more than two years after they began being suspended because of an error riddled IT system and failures to align with social security policy. The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) confirmed the resumption, flagged...

Less than 3 per cent of RDTI claims checked

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Only a tiny fraction of the 14,000 claims for innovation tax incentives last year were fully audited, the Senate heard on Wednesday, amid concerns about rorting and “pathetic” penalties....

Deloitte’s AI errors overshadow govt’s own automated mess

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Employment department still accepts the substance of Deloitte’s AI-error riddled report on Australia’s welfare compliance system, which could not assure it was operating effectively and was a punitive...

Tax Office sharpens crackdown on RDTI cheats

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
A Sydney businessman and his firms have been ordered to pay more than $13 million in penalties for encouraging clients to lodge over-inflated, inaccurate or unsubstantiated claims for research...

ACCC issues first fine for alleged CDR breach

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
The competition watchdog has issued its first infringement notice for an alleged breach of the Consumer Data Right to the Bank of Queensland. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission...