The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) will soon be forced to pay a new tax just to help collect around $50 billion in outstanding tax money owed to the government in the form of post-COVID tax debts, as well as regular receivables, where commercial recovery agents are used to expedite collection.

Yep, you read that right. The government will soon be putting a new tax on the collection of tax, a quirk that flows from a new edict from the Department of Finance that financially…