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Bizarre items Aussies try to claim in tax return as ATO deduction rules revealed (www.news.com.au)

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Sorry for the Murdoch rag, but I thought we could do with a trashy article to lighten things up a bit. Anyone else claimed depreciation on a boob job or the family pet?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ATO need to automate their auditing. Catch'em quickly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think this has the potential to be big over the next few years. Imagine machine learning going nuts over every return for the last 7 years night and day for peanuts. Auto contacting people to provide receipts, it could likely audit a million people at once and not blink.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Robodebt 2.0

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We had a meeting with our new accountants recently and she was saying that she had a client who was a builder who tried to claim his new spa pool.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Any idea how they tried to justify that? Like did they just think anything they built should be deductable, of was it more "I have a hard job and I need it to relax" type argument?