Dear Australian Taxation Office,

I request the following under the FOI Act:

A ). People Connect request CIR0039059 (something about the APSC)

B). Email from the employee who lodged the above request, sent to the APSC Commissioner on 17 June 2025 or thereabouts

C). Email the employee sent to the ATO executive on 18 June 2025 or thereabouts

Excluding from scope any employee names below SES level and all contact details.

Yours faithfully,

Axel.Foley

Dear FOI,

Thank you for your response (your reference FOI-2025-00459).

I would like to request an internal review of your decision for the following reasons.

1. My understanding of the requested documents is they contain questions/concerns about gifted elite airline lounge memberships, accepted by the APSC Commissioner and various members of the ATO Executive. In my view the ATO response to these questions, and the manner in which the questions were addressed (or not) is in the public interest.

2. The ATO record with reference CIR0039059 can be appropriately redacted to remove any identifying information.

3. Having spoken to the author of the requested documents, it is my view they would have no objection to the requested information being released, by the Right To Know website. I encourage you to ask the author of the requested documents if they have any objection to the release of the requested documents, or if releasing the information would cause them any "significant distress" as you have suggested. I put it to you that this is not a genuinely held concern by the ATO.

4. Noting your Section 47F reason, I draw your attention to the ATO decision to release communications of a similar nature, ie. the email chain between an ATO Employee and the ATO Commissioner, in your response to the 'Collingwood Fan' request published on the Right to Know website at the following link:
https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/s...

Sincerely

Axel.Foley