ATO compliance: COVID-19 tax scams

Jacqui Tucker, Brett Mitchell, Brent Murphy and Clive Bird outline the ATO’s warnings about increased cyber scams and fraud attempts and ways that individuals and businesses can protect themselves.

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) says it is aware of a significant increase in Australians being targeted by cyber criminals, including COVID-19 scams, fraud attempts and deceptive email and SMS schemes.While tax scams are not new, it seems cyber criminals are attracted to the relatively large sums that are potentially being paid to individuals and businesses where these recipients are not used to dealing directly with the ATO, or aware of how the ATO  normally acts. There appears to...

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Authors: Jacqui Tucker, Brent Murphy,

Published Date: 31 July 2020