Excellent news for individuals who go away issues to the final minute.
The Australian Taxation Workplace (ATO) have introduced they won’t be penalising Australians for failure to lodge their 2015-2016 tax returns on time.
In an announcement launched on their web site, the ATO attributed this choice to IT and system issues, which additionally they apologised for.
The problems we now have encountered with our techniques over the previous few weeks spotlight the sheer measurement, scale, and complexity of the ATO’s IT surroundings.
We proceed to look at the triggers and trigger of those points and this evaluation is informing the continuing remediation work we’re enterprise.
We will affirm latest occasions haven’t been associated to our storage space community (SAN), however have been brought on by different {hardware} or mainframe points, and typically merely human error.
The system errors relate to a sequence of outages the ATO skilled in December 2016 and February 2017. They assured Australians that no taxpayer information had been misplaced or compromised, and authorities income for 2016-2017 had not been impacted.
In a separate assertion, the ATO additionally said that they’re assured new measures in place will enable them to match the “expertise of Tax Time 2016, and taxpayers will have the ability to lodge their returns and obtain their refunds”.
The late fee leeway shall be put in place routinely. Tax practitioners, their purchasers and different taxpayers don’t must contact the ATO.
