Australian Taxation Office sources
ATO story
This is a collection of information and artefacts collected in the early 2000s. Since the research for this history was undertaken the collection has been reinvigorated and some changes made to its arrangement.
ATO History, Chronology
Collection of statements, notes, quotes and yarns
Informational Materials 1910-19 to 1960-69'
Commissioners of the Australian Taxation Office (part 2)
Commonwealth Taxation: A Brief History
Information materials and statistical data about women in the ATO
Oral History Program, Interview Tape Logs
Our Story, Commissioners of the Australian Taxation Office
Profiles of the ATO officers
The 1910s
The 1920s
The 1930s
The 1920s
The 1940s
The 1950s
The 1960s
The 1970s
The 1980s
The 1990s
Canberra bushfire booklet, Thoughts, Support and Well-wishes
Official Welcome Home, Sydney Town Hall, Friday 10th May, 1946
Official Souvenir Program, 5th Biennial Taxation Offices Interstate Sporting Carnival
Program, Taxation Follies of 1945
Program, The Quaker Girl, April 1945
Program, Christmas Frolics, 1950
Speech, Trevor Boucher, 31 October 1990
Interviews
Sue Anderson
Peter Achterstraat
Terri Ashley
Gerald Barry
Brenda Beutel
Phil Black
Mike Bond
Trevor Boucher
Mike Borucinski
Bill Boyton
Jan Brady
Tracy Breckweg
Greg Burgoyne
David Butler
Damian Byrnes
Michael Carmody
Tracie Crowden
Andrew Cocker
Denis Cortese
Danielle Cosgrove
Lee Cowie
Michael Cranston
Virginia Crozier
Kevin Curby
Steve Dardo
Michael D'Ascenzo
Frances Dee
Robert Deuchar
David Diment
Philip Doolan
Firmino dos Santos
Liz Ellwood
Kate Everingham
Gus Falkenhagen
Kevin Fitzpatrick
Chris Flynn
Phil Frain
Beverley Francis
Karen Freuen
Bill Gibson
Jennie Granger
Alan Green
Margaret Green
Richard Green
Grahame Hager
Margaret Haly
David Harwood
Kathryn Hedger
Dennis Hewitt
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Philip Hind
Kipling Ho
Stephen Hodge
Erin Holland
Lillian Howes
Peter Hughes
John Hutt
Bruce Jones
Lionel Jones
Kerrie Keefe
Carolyn Kelly
Brent Kerr
Lindy Kerr
Jill Jenkins
Jim Killaly
Mark Konza
Fun Lam
Denise Howell
Dawn Lane
Jeff Lapidos
John Lawrie
Bob Leach
Simon Le Maistre
Andrew Liso
Keith Love
Christine Lucas
Maree Harmon
Mick Lyons
Roseanne McCann
John McCarthy
Ron McEvoy
Bob McIntyre
Marilyn McTaggart
Des Maloney
Sue Mills
Pam Mitchell
Paul Malone
Chris Mobbs
John Molineux
Michael Monaghan
Graeme Moyne
Bob Mullins
Mary Murray
Ted Newton
Neil Olesen
Bill O'Reilly
John O'Reilly
Peter O'Reilly
Michael Osborne
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Leo Pierro
Jeff Piggott
Elliot Reich
Julie Pitman
Anna Pizzonia
Brian Power
Julie Prater
Melinda Reed
Bruce Quigley
Sandra Ramadori
Robert Ravanello
Carolyn Rawson
Ken Read
Philip Richards
Amanda Rochford
Gidge Rotunno
Graham Rowe
Michael Sach
Ryan Schipper
Moira Scollay
Peter Simpson
Bill Soldas
Gaye Spencer
Gwendy Street
Roger Sullivan
Graeme Sykes
Anthony Tabone
Warren Taylor
Con Theacos
Loc Trinh
Paul Tregillis
Theonie Tsoussis
Helen Tuck
Michael Trinca
Bruce Turner
Anne Van Loon
Raelene Vivian
Marcus Wearne
Denise Webb
Garry Webster
Katie Welsh
Greg Wheeler
Jack Wheeler
Christopher Whorlow
Greg Williams
Richard Williams
Craig Wynn-Jones
Karen Wynn-Jones
Trevor Yates
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National Office Library
ATO Newsletter.
Annual reports of the Commissioner of Taxation (various individual titles).
Conference of Commonwealth and State Commissioners of Taxation to Discuss the Recommendations of the Royal Commission on Taxation held in Canberra, 15th May 1934, Proceedings and Decisions of Conference.
Conference of Commonwealth and State Commissioners of Taxation and Representatives to discuss the Recommendations of the Royal Commission on Taxation held in Melbourne, 8 August 1935, Proceedings and Decisions of Conference.
Departmental Rulings Regarding Deductions Under Section 23, 1925.
Joy, A History of Taxation by the Australian Government.
Ready Reckoner, Federal Income Tax, 1935.
Robert Ewing, Taxes and their Incidence, Melbourne University Press, 1926.
Tax People.
Electronic sources
Annual report 2008-09.
ATOextra (1998-2003).
News Extra (2003-).
From miscellaneous ATO sources
Trevor Boucher, Blatant, artificial and contrived: Tax schemes of the 70s and 80s, ATO, Canberra, 2010.
Celebrating the Eightieth Anniversary of the Taxation RSL Sub-branch.
Deputy Commissioners Conference, Notes from the opening address by Mr TPW Boucher, Commissioner of Taxation, 11 July 1984, supplied by Trevor Boucher.
Employee communication; from Commissioner Michael D'Ascenzo, email, 3 December 2009.
John Grealy, Taxation Rugby League, Football Club Reunion, 1992.
Office Minute, Investment in our Future Directions, Commissioner to National Program Managers, 17 January 2006, supplied by Commissioner's office.
Parramatta Newsletter, commemorative issue June 1990.
Program, Eighth Taxation Interstate Sporting Carnival, Brisbane, 30 September to 5 October, 1962.
Queensland Taxation Sports Association, First Annual Report, 1938-39.
Queensland Taxation Sports and Social Association, Annual Report, 1953-54.
Tax Administration: Issues and Directions, Address by Commissioner of Taxation, Michael Carmody, to the Taxation Institute of Australia (Victorian Branch), Melbourne, 16 February 1993, Legislative Services Group Bulletin No.78, copy supplied by Kevin Fitzpatrick.
Tax annual 1959, Annual Report of Queensland Taxation Sports and Social Association
Tax Topics (Perth branch), March and April 1966.
Other sources
Monograph
E Ronald Walker, The Australian Economy in War and Reconstruction, New York, 1947.
Graeme Alpin, SG Foster and Michael McKernan (eds), Australians, Events and Places, Fairfax, Syme & Weldon Associates, Broadway, NSW, 1987.
Gerald E Caiden, Career Service, An Introduction to the History of Personnel Administration in the Commonwealth Public Service of Australia, 1901-1961, Melbourne University Press, 1965.
LF Fitzhardinge, That Fiery Particle 1862-1914, A Political Biography of William Morris Hughes, Volume 1, Sydney, 1978.
AJ Grassby, A Multicultural Society for the Future, Canberra, Australian Government Publishing Service, 1973.
Ian Macfarlane, The Search for Stability, Boyer Lectures 2006, ABC Books, Sydney, 2006.
Geoffrey Sherrington, Australia's Immigrants, 1788-1988, Second edition, Sydney, 1990.
Julie P Smith, Taxing Popularity, The Story of Taxation in Australia, Australian Tax Research Foundation, Research Study No.43, 2004.
Roger C Thompson, Religion in Australia: A History, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2002.
Wray Vamplew (ed), Australians, Historical Statistics, Fairfax, Syme & Weldon Associates, Broadway, NSW, 1987.
Newspapers and magazines
The Age
The Argus
Australian Financial Review
Ballarat Courier
Savvy & Sage
Smith's Weekly
The Sydney Morning Herald
Official publications
Commonwealth Parliamentary Debates
Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia 1901-1910
Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia, No.13
Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia, No.23, 1930
Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia, No.33, 1940
Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia No 56, 1970
Year Book of Australia, No 64, 1980
National Archives of Australia (record series)
CRS A2
CRS A428
CRS A447
CRS A458
CRS A461
CRS A571
CRS A2700
CRS A6006
CRS A6899
CRS A7073
CRS A11857
Articles
Bob Birrell, '1972-2000', in Andrew Marcus (ed), Building a New Community, Immigration and the Victorian Community, St Leonards, 2001.
Gerard Griffin, Union Mergers in Australia: Top Down Strategic Restructuring, Working Paper 80, National Key Centre in Industrial Relations, Monash University, Melbourne, April 2002.
P. D. Groenewegen, 'Ewing, Robert (1871-1957)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 8, Melbourne University Press, 1981, pp 453-454.
Heather Radi, 'Bruce, Stanley Melbourne [Viscount Bruce]
(1883-1967)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 7, Melbourne University Press, 1979, pp 453-461.
Malcolm Tull and Leigh Edmonds, 'Competition Policy', Historical Encyclopaedia of Western Australia, Jenny Gregory and Jan Gothard (eds), University of Western Australia Press, Crawley, 2009.
World wide web
Australian War Memorial,
www.awm.gov.au
Rate Inflation,
www.rateinflation.com/inflation-rate/
australia-historical-inflation-rate.php
Australian Bureau of Statistics,
www.abs.gov.au
Roger Clarke, Origin and nature of the internet in Australia,
www.rogerclarke.com/II/OzI04.html
Inspector-General of Taxation,
www.igt.gov.au
Board of Taxation,
www.taxboard.gov.au
Last Modified: Friday, 12 November 2010