Hi Andrew,
First up, thanks for all you do mate.
I just want to be clear that I am not shooting the messenger with these words so please don’t take them personally.
Q: If they (Revenue NSW & Treasury) knew this was all happening, why wouldn’t they have had everything (i.e. the manual, the VG data, access to the portal, the templates, even the bloody letter) ready?????
Hence my serious doubts about getting info to them by the deadline, as you say, we can’t make a start until we get these things.
We are in the process of telling them that we won’t meet the deadline and our GM fully supports my view.
We barely have enough time to complete existing workloads left alone this being forced upon us (to complete in less than 6 weeks).
And yes, I know that there are provisions to fine (Council I assume) but they can fine all they want but we won’t be paying it.
You might recall my angst (and me being very vocal) the last time they tried pushing this through and look at what happened in the end.
Might see some more entertaining emails flying by way of Revenue NSW.
Dave
PS despite the best efforts of the working group(s), based on what I know of Tech One I don’t even see how we can get the data into the format that they want – did they even consult anyone before deciding upon it?
