In January, the Tax Office announced a new data-matching program to target people receiving tax-free pensions from Centrelink and the Department of Veterans’ Affairs for the 2011 and 2012 income years.
In total, the records of 1.8 million individuals held on Government Computers will be matched against the Tax Office records of names, addresses etc to check whether tax obligations and claims for dependent tax offsets are correct.
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