This year the ATO will be cracking down on coffee shops, earth-mover operators, flight attendants, plasterers, real estate agents, churches, carpenters and joiners.

Mr Quigley said the ATO had identified cafes as a key area for possible evasion of taxes. For those under suspicion, the search can be forensic: ''We look at till tapes, employee records, third-party data, credit transactions and eftpos transactions,'' he said.

 

 

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Author: 
Jamie Borruso