Australian Taxation Office (ATO)

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is the agency responsible for collecting taxes and implementing tax policies. Its mission is to ensure taxpayers comply with tax laws and to provide high-quality services and convenient solutions.

ATO uses various technologies and methods to identify and evaluate unpaid tax bills, including utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) for large-scale data analysis. Through these methods, ATO can identify potential tax arrears and evasion behaviors and take corresponding actions to recover taxes.

After the bushfires and Covid pandemic in 2020, ATO suspended some historical liabilities. However, these liabilities have recently been reactivated, which could result in a decrease or even no tax refunds for nearly 300000 Australians.