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 phoenixing, tax evasion, the shadow economy.
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 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 obligations
- not reporting or under-reporting income
- underpayment of wages
- bypassing visa restrictions and visa fraud
- identity fraud
- Australian business number (ABN), goods and services tax (GST), and duty fraud
- illegal activity and behaviour of concern relating to COVID-19 or JobKeeper
- illegal drugs and tobacco
- sham contracting – presenting an employment relationship as a contracting arrangement
- phoenixing – deliberately liquidating and re-forming a business to avoid obligations
- excise evasion
- money laundering
- unregulated gambling
- 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
- 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.
Making a tip-off
If you suspect or know about illegal activity or behaviour of concern relating to phoenix activities, tax evasion, the shadow economy, we want to hear about it. Find out how to make a tip-off.
Privacy
You don’t have to identify yourself when making a tip-off if you don’t want to.
However, if you choose to provide your name and contact details, we may use that information:
- to understand the information you have provided
- to contact you to seek more information about your tip-off
- as part of our investigation of the alleged misconduct.
We will not disclose any information we have which would identify you, except where we are required or authorised by law to do so.
Our privacy policy (summarised in the Short form privacy policy) contains important information about your privacy, including information about how:
- you can access and seek correction of information we hold about you
- you can complain about a breach of the Australian Privacy Principles or the Privacy Code
- we will deal with any privacy complaint.
We also have a specific page about your privacy if you make a tip-off.
Contact us
Phone us on 1300 661 542:
- if you have questions about our privacy policy
- to report an instance where you suspect your privacy has been compromised.
- if you have questions about our privacy policy, you can also 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