Privacy and information gathering

Access detailed information about how we manage information we collect and hold.

How the ATO policy details deals with the collection, storage, access to, use and disclosure of personal information.

The Privacy Code requires the ATO to undertake and maintain a register of certain privacy impact assessments (PIAs).

Learn how we approach information gathering as part of our compliance checks.

Find out how we receive data from a range of sources and match it against our own data to identify people and businesses who may not be reporting all their income.

We prepare and publish a protocol for each of our data-matching programs to explain the program's purpose, what data is collected and how the data will be used.