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| Subject: Extortionist OZschwitz Tax Pack was a disaster, says thieving boss Mon Jun 06, 2011 3:56 am | |
| TAX PACK was a disaster for the Tax Office. Introduced two decades ago in order to empower ordinary Australians to prepare their own tax returns rather than using agents, the magazine-style document did the exact opposite.
As the new tax year approaches the Commissioner, Michael D'Ascenzo, has told a Senate hearing the package led to an increase rather than a decrease in the number of people using accountants to prepare their returns. The agents themselves were partly to blame.
"In the very first edition of Tax Pack we used plain English terms," he told the Senate. Advertisement: Story continues below
"And there were a lot of complaints from professional bodies that the plain English terms were not precise. We started to use precise terms and what happened since then was a spike of people moving from doing their own returns to using tax agents.
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