From www.themandarin.com.au: The ATO plans to shift from traditional self-assessment tax returns to an “assisted assessment” model, where taxpayers simply confirm their income data already collected by the ATO.

There is a growing reliance on third-party data, which facilitates compliance and helps close the tax gap, but also underlines the importance of careful stewardship of taxpayer data.

The ATO must maintain strict data governance to avoid past issues like the robodebt scandal.