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• ATO's $879m 'worst-case scenario'

  Second Commissioner of Taxation David Butler today said that the increased $879 million budget for the Australian Taxation Office's Change Program quoted in an audit report released yesterday was a worst-case scenario.

• ATO Change Program budget now $879m

  The budget for the Change Program has again been bumped up as the Australian Taxation Office says it needs $105 million to finish the project over the next two years on top of the $749 million it has already spent.

• ATO sets key Change Program date

  The Australian Taxation Office's Change Program steering committee last week approved the decommissioning of the office's 30-year-old income tax processing system, which has been the backbone for handling the income tax payments for millions of Australians.

• ATO looks to cut 120 IT jobs

  The Community and Public Sector Union said today that it has received a letter from the Australian Taxation Office which said the Office intended to cut its IT staff by 120.

• IT spending stuck in Gershon wake

  Minister for Finance Lindsay Tanner yesterday said he didnt know how long it would take to reignite IT spending in Canberra following the Gershon review.

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  Give Tax a break for a Change

  Considering the circumstances the Australian Taxation Office's (ATO) Change Program has been operating in over the last few years, it really hasn't been going too badly.

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  ATO offshoring precedent still on horizon

  The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) may have opted against a recent proposal to offshore, but it still seems the writing is on the wall following May's federal budget.

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• Changing the Change Program's agenda

  What happens when you change the agenda of the ATO's Change Program, or program in some changes to the Agenda? Or which way actually is it? Not to mention whether there will be any change left in the budget after the program's agenda has changed.

• Gershon's Groundhog Day

  What Gershon proposes is nothing more or less than a wide-scale, transformational change program. These unfortunately, rarely meet with complete success.

• ATO's Change Agenda a 'black hole'

  The Australian Taxation's Change Program (which is best suited perhaps for simple formulaic tax collections, not complex audit, analysis and interpretation work) may collapse under its own dead weight.

• Farr the reformer talks Defence

  A year from taking on perhaps the toughest IT job in the country, Defence chief information officer Greg Farr is staring down the barrel of a massive ICT reform agenda for 2009 that will reveal whether Defence got the "expert CIO" they needed.

• ATO details Change Agenda delays

  The Australian Taxation Office has issued a revised timetable for its $724 million Change Agenda IT refresh, which has recently been pushed back by 18 months.

Videos (1)

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  The Change Program changes its Agenda

  The ATO changes its IT Change Program. Or is it adding to the agenda of its Change Agenda? Our comic duo investigates.

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