🇦🇺 False posts questioning Australian tax body's authority spew legal 'nonsense': court
record from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, the ITR was registered as a company in 1999 and ceased operating in 2009.shows the same false claim against the ATO. The site said the ITR offered consumers"assistance with taxation matters".
But as early as 2000, the Federal Court of Australia had already rejected the ITR's arguments against the legal existence of the ATO. "The discussion of the arguments put ... demonstrates that they are untenable – indeed one might even say of them that they were nonsense," reads a federal court decisionpublished on February 22, 2001 by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said the ITR had been engaging in"misleading and deceptive conduct" in the provision of taxation advice.
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