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The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has selected one of Australia’s largest owned and operated technology services company Kinetic IT, as its lead Enterprise Service Management partner.

The Australian Taxation Office has renewed and extended its agreement with Macquarie Government, part of Macquarie Telecom Group, to leverage a range of data and cyber security services.

Cloud software market Class launches its Electronic Trust Lodgment function as part of its Class Trust product, providing accountants with an end-to-end solution for automating tax returns from FY21.

Digital experience software specialist Sitecore has won a contract with the Australian Taxation Office to provide digital platform and content software.

Australian federal government agencies have less than five months to comply with the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) mandate to adopt e-invoicing by 1 July 2022, which will be a game-changer for government and business across the country and may help the nation’s economic recovery, according to SAP Concur.

“Let’s talk scams” is the theme adopted by more than 350 partners across government, private and community organisations who have joined the fight against scams in this year’s national Scams Awareness Week.

GUEST OPINION: The pandemic, ongoing lockdowns and tax return time are leading to a perfect scam storm, says Dr Suranga Seneviratne from the University of Sydney’s School of Computer Science, who provides timely advice on how to spot and avoid a scam.

The Department of the Treasury has extended its contract with software company Link4, and has agreed to continue using its e-invoicing services after a successful initial 12-month period.

What is Data Science?

GUEST OPINION by Chris Tucker, Vice President – Australia and New Zealand, HCL Technologies:  Data science is an interdisciplinary field that uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms and systems to extract knowledge and insights from structured and unstructured data and apply knowledge and actionable insights from data across a broad range of domains. It’s certainly a lot more than reports and analysis and it’s moving from the back room to the forefront of many businesses as it gives meaning to the numbers.

Australian software company Atlassian’s non-profit charity support group Atlassian Foundation has partnered with PwC Australia, Herbert Smith Freehills, and Australian Philanthropic Services to create a Deed of Equity Gift.

The Australian Taxation Office has announced plans to buy additional managed IT services.

Australians will soon be able to access digital government services online, including with the Australian Taxation Office, after proving their identity using face verification from biometric authentication company iProov.

The Australian Taxation Office’s (ATO) mandate for all federal government agencies to adopt e-invoicing by July 2022 will get cashflow back to small and medium-sized suppliers significantly faster than current invoicing processes, according to SAP Concur.

Macqauarie Government and Macquarie Data Centres are making an initial investment of $17 million to build the first stage of a new data centre, Intellicentre 5 (IC5), at its Canberra campus in response to what they say is rising demand for cloud and cyber security services.

The Coalition Government's plan to pay Australians to make up for the money they have lost due to either losing their jobs or the fact that their employers have no funds to pay them appears to be a curiously long-winded exercise, which may end up being of little use.

Security vendor Fortinet has appointed Glenn Maiden as director of threat intelligence at FortiGuard Labs Australia and New Zealand.

The Australian Taxation Office is stepping up its support to help businesses know what they need to do and make the necessary move to myGovID ahead of the impending retirement of AUSkey - alerting business that the secure login to government online services cannot be extended beyond the portal shutdown date.

A number of Federal Government departments are unlikely to meet a September deadline set by the Department of Home Affairs to migrate their data from a company that is now totally Chinese owned to a new data centre.

Telecommunications and data centre provider Macquarie Telecom has inked a $20 million deal to provide security services to the Australian Taxation Office.

A crackdown on scams perpetrated over phone networks is underway as the Australian Government works with the telecommunications industry regulator ACMA in an effort to combat the increasing scurge of scams.