Tax talk March 2016

Telephone scammers posing as Australian Taxation Office officers have sparked a warning to Canberrans, with some victims having already lost more than $100,000. ACT police say they are investigating a number of frauds reported over the past month, in which people received calls claiming to be from the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). In the calls the person is told they owe the ATO a tax debt and threatened with arrest if he or she does not pay.More in this interview with Khaled Al- Melham from ATO office .