ATO gives DXC Technology further AU$735m for IT services
Summary
Over the past 12 months, the ATO has suffered a handful of IT-related incidents, including "one of a kind" SAN outages experienced as a result of the failure of the Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)-owned and operated equipment at the end of 2016.DXC Technology Australia and New Zealand managing director Seelan Nayagam told ZDNet in August that the local arm of the global IT giant also completed the upgrade of the Australian governments Budget system.The taxation office has told a House of Representatives committee that fixing the irritants that tax agents have with the ATOs systems is a key priority.Govpass is already being toyed with by the ATO for tax file number applications, but the agency has said that once it reaches a certain level of "sexy", it has the potential to extend into other transactions.The federal government expects its Govpass solution will link to existing document and facial verification services to establish identity.