No April Fool’s joke - ATO changes to the Top 500 Program announced on 1 April 2025

Belinda Cheesewright, Kristie Schubert, Blake Indian, Aylin Harapoz and Wenny Sampurna explore these changes and their impact on private groups going forward.

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO), on 1 April 2025, published some key changes to the Top 500 private groups tax performance program which took effect from April 2025. The Top 500 private groups tax performance program is one of the ATO's programs under their Tax Avoidance Taskforce, aimed at providing assurance utilising justified trust principles and a level of certainty regarding the group's compliance with tax obligations. The ATO utilises data matching and analytic models to identif...

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Authors: Belinda Cheesewright, Kristie Schubert,

Published Date: 04 April 2025