Commissioner of Taxation
NOTICE OF A DATA MATCHING PROGRAM
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) will request and collect names and addresses of individuals and entities transacting with real property from the following sources:
- New South Wales Office of State Revenue
- New South Wales Department of Finance and Services – Land and Property Information
- New South Wales Office of Fair Trading – Rental Bond Board
- Victorian State Revenue Office
- Consumer Affairs Victoria - Residential Tenancies Bond Authority
- Australian Capital Territory Environment and Sustainable Development Directorate
- Australian Capital Territory Office of Regulatory Services (Land Titles Office)
- (Northern) Territory Revenue Office
- Northern Territory Department of Lands, Planning and the Environment
- Queensland Office of State Revenue
- Queensland Residential Tenancies Authority
- Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment
- Tasmanian State Revenue Office
- Department of Justice - Tasmania
- Revenue SA (South Australian Revenue Office)
- South Australian Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure – Land Services Group
- Western Australian Land Information Authority - Landgate
- Western Australian Office of State Revenue
These will be electronically matched with certain sections of ATO data holdings to identify non compliance with lodgment and payment obligations under taxation law. Based on data currently held records relating to approximately 10.4 million individuals will be matched.
This notice replaces the previously published notice in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, GN37 on 22 September 2010.
This program is called the Real Property Data Matching Program and it enables the ATO:
- To address non compliance with lodgment and debt payment through electronic bulk matching data to identify potential ATO activity; and
- To be more strategic in its approach to ATO business activities.
A document describing this program has been prepared in consultation with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. A copy of this document is available from:
Special Purpose Data Steward
Australian Taxation
PO Box 900
Civic Square ACT 2608
Attention: Nigel Coldrick
Reference: Real Property Data Matching Program
or by emailing a request to SpecialPurposeDataSteward@ato.gov.au
The ATO complies with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner’s Guidelines on Data Matching in Commonwealth Administration which includes standards for data matching to protect the privacy of individuals.