Compliance struggles for ATO, Human Services, Customs and Foreign Affairs
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ATO backs away from redundancy entitlements clawback ahead of tech update
The CPSU claims a win over conditions rollback; senior Tax officials to give industry update to practitioners and software developers.
Online government seeks retail therapy to sell one-stop-shop and shed jobs
Digital services from agencies like Medicare and Tax return to bricks-and-mortar.
ATO hit by dispute over redundancy entitlements as it tries to slash 3,000 staff
Revenue agency put on notice over one month consultation period.
Tax set to fire 3,000 staff as Abbott’s ‘natural attrition’ promise for APS falls
Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey has given the green light to mass redundancies in government agencies to prosecute public service spending cuts in the forthcoming Budget.
Welfare and Tax primed by Hockey for core systems overhauls
Decades of sweating systems infrastructure has come back to haunt policymakers after the Treasurer cautioned replacements will cost ‘billions’.
City of Melbourne gets lean and keen
By Kate Jackson The City of Melbourne was in the spotlight following the Australasian Lean Thinking and Practice Summit, held in Melbourne in May 2013. More than 200 people came…
CPSU cold on voluntary demotion offer to avoid retrenchments
By Julian Bajkowski The conspicuous collapse of the Coalition’s promise to slash 12,000 federal public service jobs through natural attrition has been quickly followed by revelations that parts of the…
New Tax app launched in frustration
By Julian Bajkowski A long running push by Australia’s independent software community to spur the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) into improving and adding new features to the revenue agency’s eTax…
Auditor slams risky GST reporting systems
By Julian Bajkowski Legacy computer systems at the Australian Taxation Office that extract crucial reporting data on the Goods and Services Tax (GST) and Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT) have again…