Engagement and consultation activities with the software industry are an important part of developing digital solutions, which improve the administration of Australia’s tax and superannuation system.
To provide a consistent approach to these activities, we have established the Digital service provider (DSP) engagement model (PDF, 82KB). The model is designed to deliver outcomes through our engagement and consultation objectives:
- Strategic – guiding direction
- Operational – co-designing solutions
- Tactical – problem solving
- Informative – staying connected
DSP engagement groups – open
Strategic
- Digital service provider Architecture Reference Group (DARG)
- Digital service provider Strategic working group (SWG)
Effective from 1 July 2026, the ATO formally recognised the DSP Strategic Working Group as a Stewardship Group to align with the ATO Strategy. Information about the Digital Partners Stewardship Group (DPSG) can be found on the ATO website.
Operational
- Implementation of a global minimum and domestic minimum tax working group
- Modernisation of Tax Administration Systems (MTAS) – Phase 2
- Practitioner lodgment service working group
Tactical
Informational
- eInvoicing Australian and New Zealand Service Provider Forum
- Digital service provider information sessions
- Annual digital service provider tax time event
DSP engagement groups – closed
Strategic (closed)
Operational (closed)
- Business inbox design working group
- Digital Identity working group
- Modernisation of Trust Administration Systems (MTAS) working group
- Modernising Business Registers Design Working Group
- Operational Framework Review working group
- Single Touch Payroll readiness working group
- Single Touch Payroll technical committee
- Software services working group
- STP Phase 2 DSP Transition Working Group
- Superannuation Data Standard Technical Group
- SuperStream standard technical committee
- SuperStream standard working groups
- Your Future, Your Super working group
Tactical (closed)
- Activity Statement 2023 service remediation working group
- Changes to International Dealings Schedule (IDS) focus group
- Practitioner Lodgement Service (PLS) focus group – changes to activity statement service
- Rules as Code Proof of Concept (PoC) working group
- STP Parent Adjustment Service working group
- Your Future, Your Super (YFYS) – API design focus group
See also
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