Newsletter
October 2010 Newsletter
Education Tax Refund, You Claim It, They Check It
The Tax Office has launched its Education Tax Refund Data Matching Project that will see it request and collect names and addresses of taxpayers eligible for Family Tax Benefit Part A from Centrelink. These will be electronically matched with certain sections of Tax Office data holdings to identify non-compliance with lodgment and payment obligations under taxation law. Records relating to approximately 1.5m individuals registered with Centrelink will be matched.
In basic terms, those eligible for the education tax refund (more properly, a refundable tax offset) must be receiving FTB Pt A, so the data-match will, at least in part, seek to ensure the refund is being correctly claimed.
Further information is available by writing to: Education Tax Refund Data Matching Project, Australian Taxation Office, PO Box 9990 VIC 3128 — or tel: (03) 9275 2779.