The ATO is the Size of a Small City.

The Australian Tax Office is one of Australia’s largest employers, with approximately 20,000 permanent employees and 5,000 contractors . The city of Goulburn in NSW has the same number of people. It could be argued this is necessarily so, given the ATO’s critical task of raising Federal Government revenues.

It could also be argued that there is plenty of capability when it comes to policing the tax affairs of the country, so it’s never a good idea to assume that less than careful income reporting and expense claiming will go unnoticed … Continue Reading