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The tax system is being weaponised to inflict abuse, ombudsman says

Over two million Australians, mostly women, have suffered financial abuse at the hands of an intimate partner, sometimes through the weaponisation of the tax system, with impacts that can be "devastating and long-lasting" to survivors and their families, according to a report by the Tax Ombudsman.

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