Contractor/Council Data Matching Program

Written on the 1 March 2014

The ATO has advised that it will acquire details of approximately 20,500 individuals providing contractor services to local government authorities in the 2010/11 and 2011/12 financial years from various local government Council and Shire authorities throughout:

• Queensland;
• Tasmania;
• New South Wales; and 
• Victoria.

These will be electronically matched with certain sections of ATO data holdings to identify non-compliance with lodgment and payment obligations under taxation law.