Commissioner of Taxation
NOTICE OF A DATA MATCHING PROGRAM
REPLACES GAZETTE NOTICE C2013G01864 PUBLISHED ON 12 DECEMBER 2013
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) will request and collect data relating to credit and debit card sales of entities for the periods from 1 July 2012 to 30 June 2014 from the following financial institutions:
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia
- St George Bank
- Westpac Banking Corporation
- Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited
- National Australia Bank Limited
- Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Limited
- Bank of Queensland Limited
- BWA Merchant Services Pty Ltd
- American Express Australia Ltd
- Diners Club Australia
This acquired data will be electronically matched with certain sections of ATO data holdings to help provide a more level playing field for those businesses which meet their obligations by identifying those who may not; for potential corrective action. It is expected that records relating to approximately 900,000 merchants will be matched.
This program is called the Credit and Debit Card Data Matching Program and it will enable the ATO to:
- help provide a more level playing field for businesses that do the right thing by identifying, for corrective actions, those that may not be meeting their obligations.
A document describing this program has been prepared and lodged with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. A copy of this document is available by emailing SpecialPurposeDataSteward@ato.gov.au with reference to the credit and debit card data matching program.
The ATO complies with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner’s Guidelines, The use of Data Matching in Commonwealth Administration, which includes standards for data matching to protect the privacy of individuals.