Australia / Tax Office to shed 900 jobs

The Australian Taxation Office will cut 900 jobs in the next seven months, staff were told late on Wednesday

The Tax Office’s 25,000 workers across Australia were informed by email to expect redundancies as efficiency dividends by the previous Labor government and mandated by the Coalition began to bite.

The move paves the way for what is potentially the largest mass redundancy so far in the wave of job losses hitting the public service.

Writing before a planned late-night appearance at a Senate estimates committee, Commissioner of Taxation Chris Jordan told his staff that a low departure rate from the ATO recently meant that “realistically” voluntary redundancies were likely.

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The move comes despite the government’s announcement on Tuesday that it was walking away from its election commitment to cut 12,000 jobs from the public service through natural attrition. Apart from efficiency dividends, Mr Jordan blamed policy, including the scrapping of the mining tax and the axing of the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission for the cuts.

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