ATO: 185,000 duplicate tax records for individuals and 62 per cent of deceased clients, not recorded as deceased |
First 6 of 6 paragraphs shown In opposition to a Bill to allow automated Federal electoral enrolment, from Tax and social welfare data, the Liberal Party had argued; - as a number of federal electorates had margins under 100 votes, such as McEwen, Bowman and Robertson, even a one per cent error in the information sourced from the various agencies would have significant ramifications for the outcome of a seat or even an election". Can't rely on government data bases? " In simple terms, where there are such examples of inconsistency in Commonwealth data, there cannot be sufficient faith in this data being used to automatically add people to the electoral roll Quotes 1999 data: " A 1999 report by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics, Finance and Public Administration, Numbers on the run: review of the ANAO audit report No. 37 1998-99 on the management of tax file numbers, found that there were 3.2 million more tax file numbers than people in Australia at the last census, that there were 185,000 potential duplicate tax records for individuals and that 62 per cent of deceased clients were not recorded as deceased in a sample match. That sort of inaccuracy is common among other trusted data sources, and to rely on those trusted data sources as a basis for enrolling people is fraught with danger, and the integrity of the roll is put at great risk". ...Log in to read rest of Article or image. |