Commissioner of Taxation
NOTICE OF A DATA MATCHING PROGRAM
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) will acquire details of entities receiving taxable Childcare Service and Educator Payments from the former Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) now the Department of Education, for the 2011-12 and 2012-13 financial years.
These will be electronically matched with certain sections of ATO data holdings to identify non compliance with lodgment and payment obligations under taxation law. Records matched under this program will exceed 12,000 individuals throughout Australia.
This program is titled the ‘Childcare Service and Educator Payments (2011-12 and 2012-13 financial years) Data Matching Program’ and it enables the ATO to:
• identify and test the correct taxation reporting by recipients of Childcare Service and Educator Payments from DEEWR and the Department of Education; and
• identify areas that require improved educational and compliance strategies to encourage voluntary compliance for recipients of Federal Government payments and grants.
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 Childcare Services and Educator Payments 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.