We are authorised by the Taxation Administration Act 1953 to request your tax file number (TFN). We will use your TFN to identify you in our records. It is not an offence not to provide your TFN however if this is not provided, there may be a delay in processing this Fairer taxation of excess concessional contributions election form.
We are also authorised under the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 and the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 to collect information about individuals and super funds, either from you or from your authorised legal representative. We use this information to help us administer the taxation and superannuation laws. If this information isn’t collected we cannot action your request to release excess concessional contributions from your superannuation fund/s.
As the person authorised to complete this form, we collect some information about you including your Tax agent number for tax agents. The information collected will allow us to contact you if we require more information on what has been provided in this form.
Where authorised by law, we may give this information to other government departments and agencies, including:
- Department of Education
- Department of Employment
- Department of Social Services
- Department of Home Affairs
- State and Federal Police
- Australian Securities & Investment Commission
- Australian Prudential Regulation Authority
- Australian Bureau of Statistics
- Reserve Bank of Australia.
- Services Australia
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
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