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Tax system is weaponised by ex-partners: ombudsman
2025-04-20 16:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
ExclusiveNationalDomestic violenceBy Wendy TuohyApril 3, 2025 4.00am, registeror subscribeto save articles for later.Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.When Melbourne woman Laura asked her then-husband how he could have fraudulently accrued $500,000 worth of tax debt in her name, his reply was blunt: I did it to put you in jail.Stories like hers shocked and disturbed the national tax ombudsman, Ruth Owen, who on Thursday released a report into identification and management of financial abuse within the tax system.The tax system was being weaponised by perpetrators using coercive control and business knowledge to deliberately create harm and financial distress to their intimate partners, said Owen, who is also the inspector-general of taxation.Victims often became aware they owed significant amounts only when they received penalty notices, and they usually had to pay the debts.Owen wants the Australian Taxation Office to provide ...
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