Tax time in danger from ATO's tech wreck

By Noel Towell
Updated March 2 2017 - 6:38pm, first published February 9 2017 - 1:38pm
No guarantees on tax time: Australian Taxation Office chief information officer Ramez Katf.
No guarantees on tax time: Australian Taxation Office chief information officer Ramez Katf.

The Tax Office cannot guarantee it will begin tax time 2017 on July 1 as it scrambles desperately to save this year's tax return program from the fall-out of its disastrous pre-Christmas online meltdown.