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    The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has referred a fraudulent e-mail claiming to be from the ATO to the Australian Federal Police and warned people to delete it immediately from their computers.

  • AU Tax Office extends outsourcing deal with EDS

    The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has extended their outsourcing arrangement with troubled IT giant Electronic Data Systems (EDS).

  • ATO bars 'Trojan-infected' tax agents

    The Australian Tax Office has restricted access to its Web site after discovering that a "small number" of tax agents have been infected by a Trojan, which has "stolen" their user IDs and passwords.

  • Capgem expects AU$10m from tax conscience deal

    Capgemini expects to earn up to AU$10 million from its three-year engagement as quality assurance 'overseer' to the Australian Taxation Office's (ATO) AU$350 million change project.

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    Another landmark in Australia's history of business online may soon disappear, with strong indications that Austpac -- a precursor to the Internet in Australia -- will be shut down by the end of the year.

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    Taxing times for the ATO

    Australians, it turns out, are rather keen on submitting their tax returns electronically, but if you want to know just how keen they are right at this moment, you'll have to wait for a couple of years.

  • Read the blog post - Munir Kotadia

    Can digital certs fend off Trojan attacks?

    Special Minister of State Gary Nairn this week released a paper titled 'Responsive Government - A New Service Agenda', which details how e-government services will be 'improved' over the next four years.

  • Read the blog post - Munir Kotadia

    Tax Office needs to rethink open source objections

    The Australian Tax Office CIO Bill Gibson claims that one of the reasons he hasn't deployed much open source software is due to security fears, with the code not subject to enough "technical scrutiny".

  • Read the blog post - Steven Deare

    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.

  • Read the blog post - Liam Tung

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    Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has welcomed "improvements" in ISP filtering technologies, but will a broad-scale roll-out make ISPs a thief's favourite target?

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    The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has extended their outsourcing arrangement with troubled IT giant Electronic Data Systems (EDS).

  • Government CIO spotlight on: Security

    How do four of Australia's largest government agencies protect their networks from attackers? To find out, ZDNet.com.au went to Canberra and spoke to the CIOs of Customs, Centrelink, Defence and the Australian Tax Office.

  • China, US resolve chip tax issues

    China has agreed to phase out an oft-criticised tax that US companies complained discriminated against foreign semiconductor makers, the latest step in improving relations.

  • Australian Tax Office: Bill Gibson, CIO

    Bill Gibson, CIO of the Australian Tax office, spoke to ZDNet.com.au about why he doesn't completely trust open source software; how the ATO handles security and why competing vendors will have to learn to work together.

  • Aust Tax Office driving corporate e-commerce takeup

    The Australian Taxation Office is about to complete an important phase of the federal government's Gatekeeper strategy to drive ecommerce, the Business Authentication Framework (BAF).

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    Accounting software is never going to be sexy. We didn't find Quickbooks QBi 2008/2009 sexy, but we did find the latest incarnation of the well known brand to be a great program and a worthy upgrade.

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    Need some help with your taxes this year? While they won’t take the sting out of tax time entirely, some of the most recent accounting software offerings are designed to do more than just arithmetic.

  • PaperPort Pro 9 Office

    PaperPort Pro 9.0 Office could prove invaluable to businesses, but average consumers might be better off with the consumer-oriented PaperPort Deluxe 9.0.

  • Tech Guide: Software on the cheap

    Fed up with paying through the nose for programs? Need to repopulate a system with applications following a disaster? You need our guide to free and low-cost software.

  • Asus VW223B

    The Asus VW223B is acceptable for its intended audience those who need to add a second monitor cheaply, and are undemanding in its use.

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