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Privacy notice – Closely held trusts – adding or cancelling a PAYG withholding account

Read about our privacy notice for closely held trusts – adding or cancelling a PAYG withholding account.

Last updated 20 May 2019

We are authorised by the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 and the Tax Administration Act 1953 to collect the information requested on this form. We need it to add or cancel a PAYG withholding business account for closely held trusts. If you do not provide this information, we may not be able to process your form.

We are authorised by the Taxation Administration Act 1953 to ask for tax file numbers (TFNs). You are not required by law to provide us with a TFN, however, failure to provide a TFN may result in a delay in processing this notification.

We collect some personal information about you because you signed the form. The information collected will enable us to ensure that you are the person with the authority within the entity to complete the form. It will also allow us to contact you if we need further information.

Where authorised by law, we may give this information to other government departments and agencies, including:

  • Centrelink
  • Australian Bureau of Statistics
  • Law Enforcement Agencies.

We also provide taxpayer information to treaty partners overseas under international tax agreements.

Our privacy policy contains important information about your privacy, including information about how you can access and seek correction of information we hold about you, how to make a complaint if you think we have breached the Australian Privacy Principles and how we will deal with any privacy complaints.

For more information about privacy or if you believe your privacy has been compromised:

  • phone our privacy hotline on 1300 661 542
  • write to us at the address below

Australian Taxation Office
GPO Box 9990
[insert the name and postcode of your capital city]

For example:

Australian Taxation Office
GPO Box 9990
SYDNEY NSW 2001

See also:

QC39011