What is the Tax Integrity Centre?
The Tax Integrity Centre (TIC) is the community's single point of contact to report information on suspected or known illegal activity or behaviour of concern relating to phoenix, tax evasion and the shadow economy activities.
We use the information you provide to ensure the integrity of the tax and superannuation systems.
The TIC also:
- engages enhanced analytics to makes better use of the information you provide
- strengthens protections for those reporting information.
We have information about the Tax Integrity Centre available in selected other languages.
What you can report
You can report any known or suspected activity where someone is gaining a competitive advantage by intentionally doing the wrong thing.
This is not just limited to tax issues. It involves behaviours such as:
- demanding or paying for work cash in hand to avoid tax obligations
- not reporting or underreporting income
- underpayment of wages
- bypassing visa restrictions or visa fraud
- identity fraud
- Australian business number (ABN), goods and services tax (GST) and excise duty fraud
- accessing government payments or support illegally
- producing or selling illegal drugs or tobacco
- sham contracting, for example presenting an employment relationship as a contracting arrangement
- phoenixing, for example deliberately liquidating and re-forming a business to avoid obligations
- money laundering
- participating in unregulated gambling
- producing or selling counterfeit goods.
How you can make a difference
When you provide information through a tip-off, we will always analyse and consider it. Even if we don’t take immediate action, the information you provide is still very important to us. It helps us understand industry trends and emerging issues and forms part of our engagement strategies.
However, due to privacy and taxpayer confidentiality laws, we won’t be able to:
- provide you with progress updates of our analysis
- inform you of the outcome of the information you provide.
Remember, when you make a tip-off, you help keep the system fair for everyone.
How to make a tip-off
Making a tip-off is not just limited to tax and superannuation issues. We want to hear when someone is gaining a competitive advantage over those who are doing the right thing.
You can tell us your concern, if you or someone you know is doing the wrong thing.
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