Amid surging digital GST fraud, the tax office is struggling to quickly refund legitimate businesses while cracking down on dark web tax fraud.
Criminals are increasingly turning to the dark web to promote tax fraud, amid a nearly $600 million GST compliance crackdown aimed at lifting GST collections by $7.6 billion over the next five years.explosion in fraudulent claims
“In the same way as you can buy ‘kits’ off the dark web and there are many actors who offer ‘support packages for identity crime’, there is growing evidence this same type of support exists for people willing to run the risk of committing fraud in their own name,” Mr Ford said.He said this change in the “taxation fraud paradigm” emerged after the pandemic, and included the invention of fake businesses to claim GST refunds they were not entitled to.
“These activities will ensure businesses meet their tax obligations, including accurately accounting for and remitting GST, and correctly claiming GST refunds,” the budget papers said. He said the attacks could scale up very quickly and criminals were responding agilely even as controls are strengthened.to a major upgrade of the digital identity system that
“It is important that these controls are fine-tuned so that they do not inadvertently capture true start-up businesses, which will often urgently need GST refunds for cash flow purposes,” the spokesperson said.
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