ATO outsources debt collection.

Australasian Business Intelligence, February, 2006

Byline: Fleur Anderson

Feb 20, 2006 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) will trial a program to collect more debts. The tax debts of small business operators in Australia have skyrocketed to $A6.5 billion. The ATO will begin a trial, using a private collection agency, in March 2006 and will finish it in June 2006. It is thought that

the private agency will be Dun & Bradstreet. The ATO staff, who are represented by the Australian Services Union, fear that this could be the first step to the outsourcing of ATO work. Insiders argue that unless the private agency can threaten to bankrupt small businesses, it will be a "toothless...

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