Taxation Office sacked 12 in past year for accessing records

ATO commissioner Chris Jordan at the hearings (AAP)

ATO commissioner Chris Jordan at the hearings (AAP)

The Australian Taxation Office commissioner says the ATO sacked 12 employees in the past year for illegally accessing the records of Australians, including celebrities. He also has admitted the ATO's reputation took a battering in the fallout from one of Australia's biggest-ever tax-fraud cases, involving one of its own officials. Lei Gong has the story.



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