State revenue offices are using data matching to identify people who earn income from Airbnb, then sending notices that they may be liable for land tax, even though this remains a legal grey area.
The problems with Centrelink’s data-matching system stem from reconciling datasets held by different agencies. What if we used a blockchain to create a single source of data?
Centrelink’s debt recovery system is using information in a way that it was not designed to be applied, without properly adjusting for differences between the tax and social security system.