The tax office will visit 10,000 businesses over the next 12 months as it looks to educate and send “a strong message” to businesses operating in the black economy.
As part of the $318.5 million federal budget funding boost to the ATO to implement new strategies to combat the black economy, the Tax Office will be authorising mobile strike visits to 10,000 businesses in 30 locations across the country.
The locations will include 10 metro, 10 regional and 10 remote areas.
Already this year, we’ve contacted over 3,000 businesses in six locations from Cairns to Canberra, also Darlinghurst, Surry Hills, Bunbury and Busselton,” said ATO deputy commissioner, Deborah Jenkins at the IPA’s National Congress.
“Currently, we’re visiting businesses in Box Hill, Adelaide CBD, and Broadbeach, and soon we will visit Alice Spring, Darwin, Katherine, Launceston, Geelong and Wollongong.
“Our mobile strike team visits provide real visibility of the ATO within the community and it positively impacts on small business and community perceptions,” she added.
“It supports our commitment to protecting honest businesses that are being undermined by their competitors who get an unfair advantage when they don’t report all of their income and it sends a strong message to those who are deliberately doing the wrong thing that there is a high risk of being detected.”
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