{"id":13406,"date":"2025-11-02T21:01:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T15:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/ato-is-paying-private-debt-collector-42m-to-pursue-taxpayers-including-welfare-recipients\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T21:01:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T15:31:41","slug":"ato-is-paying-private-debt-collector-42m-to-pursue-taxpayers-including-welfare-recipients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/ato-is-paying-private-debt-collector-42m-to-pursue-taxpayers-including-welfare-recipients\/","title":{"rendered":"ATO is paying private debt collector $42m to pursue taxpayers, including welfare recipients"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nshorts-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nshorts-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-headline\">ATO is paying private debt collector $42m to pursue taxpayers, including welfare recipients<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-summary\">The tax office\u2019s increased reliance on Recoveriescorp has coincided with a spike in complaints to the watchdogGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Australian Taxation Office has awarded the private debt collector Recoveriescorp more than $42m in contracts as part of a hard-edged campaign to pursue some taxpayers, including welfare recipients.The size of the contracts, published on the government\u2019s tender portal, shows how much the ATO has come to rely on the third-party collector in recent years, which has coincided with a spike in complaints to the watchdog. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/nov\/03\/ato-australian-taxation-office-private-debt-collector-recoveriescorp-paid-42m\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nshorts-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-audio-section\" style=\"margin-top:15px;padding:10px;background:#f5f5f5;border-radius:5px\"><strong>Listen:<\/strong> <audio controls style=\"width:100%;margin:10px 0\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:5px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&#038;tl=en&#038;client=tw-ob&#038;q=The+tax+office%E2%80%99s+increased+reliance+on+Recoveriescorp+has+coincided+with+a+spike+in+complaints+to+the+watchdogGet+our+breaking+news+email%2C+free+app+or+daily+news+podcastThe+Australian+Taxation+Offic\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#0073aa;text-decoration:none\">\u2193 Download Audio<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts ATO is paying private debt collector $42m to pursue taxpayers, including welfare recipients The tax office\u2019s increased reliance on Recoveriescorp has coincided with a spike in complaints to the watchdogGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Australian Taxation Office has awarded the private debt collector Recoveriescorp more than $42m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13407,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13406\/revisions\/13407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}