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ATO Executive airline memberships and other gifts

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Dear Australian Taxation Office,

This is request for information under the Freedom of Information Act.

I request the following documents pertaining to current members of the ATO Executive over the last 5 years:

1. Any documents detailing gifted airline lounge memberships (such as the Qantas Chairmans' lounge or similar)

2. Any declarations made of any other gifts received, including the gift type, and estimate value.

Yours faithfully,

Mr Squiggle

Joseph Fabbro, Australian Taxation Office

Good morning Mr Squiggle,

Thank you for your request. The information you have requested is already publicly available at the following link -

https://www.ato.gov.au/about-ato/commitm...

At that link you will find the Commissioner of Taxation declarations back to 2019, including Lounge Memberships.

Under the 'ATO Employees' declarations tab, you will find the ATO Executive Members declarations, including Lounge Memberships. They will be labelled under the 'received by' column as the ATO Executive members position i.e. Chief Information Officer, Chief Finance Officer, Chief Operating Officer, or Second Commsisioner.

Please let me know if you wish to progress with your request.

ATO FOI team

ATO. Working for all Australians

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Dear Joseph Fabbro,
Thank you email.
Please proceed to process my request under the act.
Further, I wish to add the following documents to the scope of this request :
1. All correspondence (with respect to gifted lounge membership) between the airlines and the individuals gifted Qantas Chairman's lounge access (or Virgin equivalent), including but not limited to the original invitations, acceptance, the recipient's declaration made to the ATO as required by ATO policies.
2. Any documents held by the ATO that detail an estimate on the value of such lounge memberships
3. Any documents that touch on matters relating to conflict of interest, or perceived conflicts of interests, of gifted airline lounge memberships.
4. Documents showing the Commissioner and ATO Executive members have completed the mandatory training that is required to be completed by all ATO staff.

Yours sincerely,

Mr Squiggle

Joseph Fabbro, Australian Taxation Office

Thank you for your email, we will proceed with processing the request taking into account those further points.

The standard timeframe for us to process an FOI request is 30 days from the date we receive an application. However, ATO will close at 12.00 pm on Tuesday 24 December 2024 and will re-open on Thursday 2 January 2025.

We therefore seek your agreement to a 30 day extension of the processing period under section 15AA of the FOI Act to cover this shutdown period and other leave taken by staff around this time. Of course, we will continue to process your request and provide our decision as soon as we can.

Regards,

ATO FOI team.

ATO. Working for all Australians

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Dear Joseph Fabbro,

Thank you for your email. I am happy to allow an additional 10 days to the standard processing time to cover the shut down period.

Yours sincerely,

Mr Squiggle

FOI, Australian Taxation Office

1 Attachment

Dear FOI Applicant,

 

Please see attachment.

 

 

Yours faithfully,

 

FOI Team

 

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