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Introduction	(PDF 340KB)
Terms of Reference Conduct of inquiry Explanatory notes Acknowledgements Recommendations
Chapter 1: The Australia Card Proposal	(PDF 1160KB)
Introduction The Government submission Taxation uses Taxation benefits     Voluntary compliance     Companion svstem of entities     staff Benefits and costs of the proposal     Benefits     Costs Aims of the proposal     (a) Taxation evasion     (b) Social Security fraud     (c) Illegal immigrants     (d) Benefit protection and other areas of Commonwealth expenditure Organised crime
Chapter 2: Essential Reforms	(PDF 1191KB)
Introduction Computerised linkage of births, deaths and marriages registers Establishment of a Data Protection Agency The introduction of Privacy legislation Adoption of recommendations proposed by various Parliamentary and Government reports     (a) Improved banking controls     (b) Control of illegal immigration     (c) Administrative reforms         (i) Suspected fraud         (ii) The Department of Education     (d) Monitaring and possible extension of the Department of Social Security identity procedures         (i) Audit findings - overpayments         (ii) Audit findings - identification             Identification of applicants             Pre-grant interviews             Checks with employers             Intra-departmental verification checks         (iii) The use of false birth certificates
Chapter 3: National Identification System	(PDF 404KB)
Introduction Data Privacy in Australia Civil Libertarian Concerns Arising from the Government Proposal     (a) Card will become a compulsory internal passport     (b) Dossier capability     (c) Access to register         (i) Logging     (d) uses         (i) Location         (ii) Research         (iii) Computer matching/data linkage     (e) Display of information on Card
Chapter 4: Alternatives	(PDF 571KB)
Introduction Upgrading the Tax File Number     (a) Existing tax file number     (b) Moderate integrity tax file number     (c) High integrity tax file number Withholding Tax     (a) Dividends and interest         Bearer Bonds     (b) Prescribed Payments System     (c) U.K. system Upgrading the resources of the AT0 Conclusions and Recommendations
Addendum - Senator Christopher Puplick	(PDF 1280KB)
Dissenting report of Senator Terry Aulich, Mr Bob Brown MP, and Mr John Brumby MP	(PDF 878KB)
Appendicies	(PDF 1003KB)
Appendix 1 - Individuals and organisations who made a written submission to the Committee Appendix 2 - Individuals and organisations who appeared before the Committee Appendix 3 - Index to witnesses Appendix 4 - Letters to the Committee from the Australian Taxation Office Appendix 5 - Report of t h e House of Representatives Standing Committee on Expenditure - 'Who Calls Australia Home', November 1985 - List of Recommendations Appendix 6 - Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Guidelines on the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data (Paris 1981) - Extract

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