Just found out that someone who is a registered tax agent has logged into my ATO portal using my TFN, removed my appointed accountant and put himself/herself as my accountant.
He/she has been receiving all my company documents from the ATO and obviously not forwarding them for action - this resulted in fines being imposed by the ATO.
My accountant logged in today to discover that he no longer had authority - after several phone calls it was resolved and we received and actioned the relevant missing information that was getting sent to this mystery tax agent.
The ATO waived all associated fines due to non action but CANNOT provide information on who this mystery person was.
Can someone with a back ground in TAX please explain to me how this is not fraud? How can someone just break into someone else's records and start receiving their information without authority? The ATO stated that they will create more stringent measures so that it wont happen again... however no action or identification towards whoever did this will be taken. Is this right?
He/she has been receiving all my company documents from the ATO and obviously not forwarding them for action - this resulted in fines being imposed by the ATO.
My accountant logged in today to discover that he no longer had authority - after several phone calls it was resolved and we received and actioned the relevant missing information that was getting sent to this mystery tax agent.
The ATO waived all associated fines due to non action but CANNOT provide information on who this mystery person was.
Can someone with a back ground in TAX please explain to me how this is not fraud? How can someone just break into someone else's records and start receiving their information without authority? The ATO stated that they will create more stringent measures so that it wont happen again... however no action or identification towards whoever did this will be taken. Is this right?