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When Ali Noroozi took the job as head of the taxation watchdog, the Inspector-General of Taxation in 2008, it was likened to David taking on Goliath.
The office had been formed five years earlier, had embarrassingly few resources and a massive mandate to oversee the most powerful and arguably least scrutinised regulator in the country, the Australian Taxation Office (ATO).
It was an important and demanding job that wasn't for the faint-hearted.
After a 10-year rollercoaster ride that has seen him butt heads on more than one occasion with the ATO, fight to keep his department from being closed, lobby to reform the ATO and broaden his powers and resources, the ever-diplomatic and very proper Noroozi is moving on.
Inspector-General of tax Ali Noroozi bows out after 10 yearsAfter a 10-year rollercoaster ride that has seen him butt heads on more than one occasion with the ATO, fight to keep his department from being closed, lobby to reform the ATO and broaden his powers and resources, the ever-diplomatic and very proper Noroozi is moving on.
Noroozi said the IGT should be taken out of the treasury portfolio, which is where both treasury and the ATO is located, and instead report to Parliament, similar to the Auditor General and the Commonwealth Ombudsman, which effectively report to Parliament but are in the Prime Minister and Cabinet portfolio.
"It is inappropriate for the scrutineer to be in the same portfolio as the subject of its scrutiny," he said.
And the name should be scrapped and rebadged the Taxation Ombudsman to make it more easily identifiable.
“They [the government] hate her,” Mr Milne said in the email, which was conveyed to Fairfax Media by a source close to the board.
“We are tarred with her brush. I think it’s simple. Get rid of her. We need to save the ABC - not Emma. There is no guarantee they [the Coalition] will lose the next election.”
They hate her': emails show ABC chairman told Michelle Guthrie to fire Emma Alberici
