Accountants left out of ATO outage compo
Accountants have been left out in the cold after the Australian Taxation Office negotiated a compensation payment with US-based technology giant Hewlett Packard Enterprise, following an investigation to get to the root cause of long and costly systems outages in December and February.
Speaking in advance of a budget estimates hearing on Tuesday, Tax Commissioner Chris Jordan said a report into the technical problems that caused online tax systems to be unavailable twice would be released next week, and confirmed that a confidential financial settlement had been reached with HPE.
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