Michael D'Ascenzo. Picture: Kym Smith Source: National Features
THE personal tax files of Australians, including those of celebrities, are being increasingly accessed by Australian Tax Office staff.
The ATO is scrambling to stem a 45 per cent increase last financial year of reported cases of unauthorised access of the private details.
Advice obtained under Freedom of Information laws reveals outgoing ATO Commissioner Michael D'Ascenzo was briefed before a Senate estimates hearing in October that 200 cases were reported, up from 138 previously.
The issue accounted for 68 per cent of all ATO misconduct cases but the ATO blamed "refinements made to our active detection methods, including data mining" and said only a quarter of the reported cases could be substantiated.
Reasons listed for the breaches included helping family and friends to gain access, locating information for themselves and browsing out of curiosity. "In rare instances, to commit fraud (i.e. identity takeover for financial gain)," the brief said.
Yesterday Opposition workplace relations spokesman Eric Abetz said the ongoing problems of unauthorised access showed there was a cultural problem.
"Australians will be outraged at this unauthorised prying into their personal affairs," he said.
"Clearly there is an ingrained cultural problem with Tax Office employees snooping on Australians' private tax information."
In July and August, 13 cases were finalised and during 2011-12 two staff were referred to the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions.
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