Common use of Alternative Methods Clause in Contracts

Alternative Methods. Currently, DHS undertakes similar matching to this program under the Data-matching Program (Assistance and Tax) Act 1990. (DMP). While the DMP addresses similar compliance risks, restriction of the Act has meant overtime, that DHS haven’t been able to introduce efficiencies developed in other matching programs. This has led to DHS’s activity under the DMP to become inefficient for customers and third parties as well as DHS itself when compared to the other compliance activity. The NEIDM program not only opens the door for DHS to recognise efficiencies, it will form part of DHS’s innovative compliance platform for the future. DHS’s will be able to address significantly more non-compliance and do so by empowering customers with more information. It is not possible to conduct this type of compliance activity without the exchange and matching of data. The NEIDM program represent the most efficient and effective alternative to address compliance related to un/under-declared income.