Hi everyone, I’m updating this post (2:30pm AU 21/11/24), as there have been a lot of comments and engagement in the change. With over 100 comments on the post, we are starting to get the same q...
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Try this link for feedback to the ATO
https://softwaredevelopers.ato.gov.au/contact-us
I've sent the following email to the Standard Business Reporting enquiries email address.
Hi
I am contacting you as a frustrated business owner regarding the onerous requirements being implemented around access to programs such as MYOB. On top of mandatory multi factor authentication they have now told all users that periods of greater than 30 minutes of inactivity will result in screen locks and users having to input their password to unlock. MYOB have pointed disgruntled users to the following links as being the requirements forced on them as an SaaS provider.
https://softwaredevelopers.ato.gov.au/RequirementsforDSPs
https://softwaredevelopers.ato.gov.au/operational_framework/further-guidance-requirements
What authority does the ATO have to mandate the security procedures that my business decides to implement? The only interaction that we have with the ATO through MYOB is the periodic payroll reporting and that should be the limit of any access restrictions the ATO should be able to require. I imagine there are quite a number of businesses who use MYOB who don’t even have that level of interaction.
How do business owners and users of commercially available software object to this unacceptable intrusion into our business by the ATO?
Regards
Michael
Brilliant Michael ..... let's all send the ATO our feedback ... bombard them with our voices until they listen.... I am sick of this nanny state legislating us to the grave.....