‘Robotax’ is a symptom of a gap in Australia’s tax laws. Here’s how to fix it
- Written by Ann Kayis-Kumar, Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney

Imagine believing you owed nothing to the Australian Tax Office, and then suddenly finding out decades later that you did, and that the Tax Office had been accruing interest and penalties on it for decades.
You might think it was like Robodebt, the disgraced scheme under which the government tried to extract money from welfare...
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