Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

asked the Minister representing the Treasurer, upon notice, on 14 November 2011:

(1)   What arrangements for information sharing between the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) and the Office of the Child Support Registrar were in place from 2001 to the coming into law of the Tax Laws Amendment (Confidentiality of Taxpayer Information) Act 2010 (the Act).

(2)   What is the nature of the information sharing arrangements in place between the ATO and the Office of the Child Support Registrar following the coming into law of the Act.

(3)   (a) Are the documents forming the information sharing arrangements:

     (i)   private or restricted access documents, and

     (ii)   able to be recovered under freedom of information; and

  (b) if access to the documents is restricted, on what basis is access restricted.

(4)   On what date was the first formal administrative arrangement put in place to allow authorised access to taxation information by the Office of Child Support Registrar.