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Secure and private information

We create and maintain a secure environment for the protection of your personal information and records.

Last updated 4 June 2025

How we collect information about you

To administer the tax laws, we collect information about you. We may get this information from:

Complying with privacy legislation

We respect your privacy and keep your information confidential by complying with the following:

In some circumstances, the law allows us to disclose your information to others for specific purposes. For example, we have data-matching programs that comply with all government data-matching guidelines.

Our privacy policy and privacy notices

Our ATO privacy policy provides more detail on the collection, storage, use and disclosure of the personal information we hold about you and how you can access or seek to amend that information. It also contains information about what you can do if you are not satisfied with how your information has been treated.

You can access the privacy notices for all our forms, calculators and tools from Your privacy.

Privacy concerns or complaints

If you think that your privacy or the confidentiality of your tax information has been breached because of our actions, you should talk to us as soon as possible. If you have already been dealing with a tax officer, your first step should be to try to resolve the issue with them. If you are not satisfied, talk to the tax officer's manager. For more information, see Complaints, compliments and suggestions

If you are not satisfied with the way we have handled your complaint, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner – Privacy CommissionerExternal Link may be able to help you.

 

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