Investigation into management practices of Information Management branch of ATO Corporate
Dear Australian Taxation Office,
I would like to request access to all documents relating to any investigations into the management or management practices of the Information Management branch of the ATO Corporate area. I request access to any documents created between 2015 and the current date.
Yours faithfully,
J. Noel
Dear FOI Applicant,
Please see the attachment.
Yours faithfully,
FOI Team
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Dear Applicant,
Please see attachment.
Yours faithfully,
FOI Team
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Dear FOI Applicant,
Please see attachment.
Yours faithfully,
FOI Team
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Mark R. Diamond left an annotation ()
Why is it that no one has complained about the behavior of the ATO. Having refused for 9 months to process requests filed through Right to Know, they now purport to comply with the law but do not do so. The requirement of s 15(2)(c) of the Act is that a request under FOI "... give details of how notices under this Act may be sent to the applicant (for example, by providing an electronic address to which notices may be sent by electronic communication)". But the ATO doesn't appaer to be doing that, no doubt so as to avoid the possibility that anyone might comment about such notices. Instead, they do not send the notices required by the Act to the applicant. Instead, they send a "meta-notice" (i.e., a notice about where you might find a notice) to the applicant. A complaint (in fact multiple complaints) to the Information Commissioner are warranted.