7 July 2017 email from Tyson Fawcett in the ATO to DHS says there has been an operational meeting and they want further assurances that ATO data will be used properly and, if not, "that you cease and desist the usage of the data until we have your assurances."
The Australian Tax Office asked that the robodebt scheme “cease and desist” using taxpayer data, but was ignored by the Department of Human Services.
ATO director of data management Tyson Fawcett, who has been with the tax office for more than 30 years, told the commission on Monday averaging annual income data to arrive at a fortnightly rate is simply not an accurate method.
Former minister Marise Payne has told a royal commission into robodebt she doesn’t know how early concerns over the scheme’s legality were left out of later policy documents.
Senator Payne was human services minister at the time the program was formulated, working underneath then social services minister Scott Morrison.
She appeared as a witness before the commission in Brisbane on Tuesday.
Early ministerial briefings from the Department of Human Services about the scheme suggested using Australian Taxation Office data as an alternative to the “cumbersome” method of cross-checking income declared by customers.
Robodebt concerns ‘dropped’ from briefings
ATO director Tyson Fawcett threatened to 'cease and desist' robodebt data before backing down
Tax officials who raised concerns about robodebt were ‘fobbed off’, inquiry hears
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