Taxpayer Case

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The taxpayer was a senior compliance officer that claimed a judgment under section 8-1 of the income tax assessment Act (ITAA 1997).

The first thing the judges would have looked t would have been paragraph (56d) of the Public Service Act 1922 and from this they would have seen how he didn’t manage to comply his job as a tax payer officer as he used his official customs identification card and with his job this was very unethical as he was going to use it to gain access to a court officer, so he could get information about a search warrant which was authorized a search of his work station.

The second thing you could look at is subparagraph 56 (f)(i) of the public service at 1922 and associated failure of the taxpayer on various dates, as he …show more content…

He used the work vehicle for none related work purposes and falsely entered his attendance record and failed to communicate information to the investigation of another person.

The charges only occurred after an investigation from the Australia Federal Police (AFP) to customs of information, as they were able to listen to conversations of taxpayers home, mobile and work telephones. The taxpayer then took legal action, which proceeds in the Federal court and High court of Australia, but the charges were unsuccessful and were not used because the AFP unlawfully passed the information used on the telephone conversations to customs.

At first Emmett J held that the legal expenses held from the first and third charges couldn’t be deductible, but its was also held that the commissioner was estopped for contesting the charges from the third charges were deductible. It was held by the Honour that the second charges were to be

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