that means you still have time to issue another five garnishees. The instruction followed an email sent in May to staff towards the end of a shift: “the last hour of power is upon us. A standard garnishee notice requires the bank to keep sending money to the tax office whenever money is deposited in the account. “We were instructed quite clearly and categorically to start issuing standard garnishees on every case,” he says.Ī garnishee notice is a debt-collecting tool that allows the tax office to order a bank to hand over money from the taxpayer’s account, without consulting the taxpayer. It was June 8, 2017, when Boyle and other staff were called into a meeting and instructed to use more heavy-handed debt collection tactics on taxpayers who owed the tax office money.
“People were rushing around, there was a lot of paperwork, I wondered what was going on,” he says. Normal text size Larger text size Very large text sizeĪmid the chaos of the end of the financial year, Richard Boyle strolled into work at the Adelaide branch of the Australian Taxation Office, a key centre for debt collection.
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