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We thought we’d been strong in our criticism of the Australian Taxation Office! But the ABC Four Corners show airing this Monday 9 April at 8.30pm takes the criticism to a whole new level!

We’ve said of the ATO that it:

• ‘Is a frozen dinosaur’.
• ‘Thinks the earth is flat’.

and we’ve asked:

• has the ATO attempted to pervert the course of justice?

Four Corners comes bang to the point in its title for the program: ‘Mongrel Bunch of Bastards’.

It’s a documentary exposing the mistreatment of small business people by the ATO.

Here’s the link to the ABC promo.

You’ll see and hear the stories of

• the people we helped when their ABNs were withdrawn late last year.
• people who’ve been falsely accused of fraud, just like Rod Douglass.

In the show I say that the ATO attacks vulnerable people.

We know this because of the huge effort we’ve put into defending self-employed people unfairly under attack from the ATO.

And that’s why our Tax Audit Support Insurance for Self-Employed Australia members is so important.

• Information is here.
• You can join us here.

With the Tax Audit Support Insurance the money is available to defend self-employed people under ATO audit attack. This adds another layer of protection to the work that we at Self-Employed Australia undertake on the tax policy front.

Next week we’ll release our program for reform of the ATO. It’s about justice!