Protect Your TFN — Please

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Protect your TFN

✓Never share it — even with friends

✓Don’t scatter it across sites

✓We show every cent, take none unasked

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ALITAX · Bilal Jivraj — Registered Tax Agent 25287564. Original guidance from 10+ years of DASP and tax casework.

This is a heartfelt, honest request — please read it. Your Tax File Number (TFN) is not a joke, and protecting it protects you.

Never hand your TFN around

Your TFN is not something to give to every website or every person. If someone has your TFN, they can create a fake myGov account and claim a refund in your name — without you ever knowing. At ALITAX we have seen it happen: people find their refund already claimed by someone else.

Even friends — please be careful

We have genuinely seen friends claim refunds using someone else’s TFN, without that person’s knowledge. Please do not share your TFN with friends. It should stay strictly confidential and be given only to trusted people — your employer, or a registered tax agent like us.

And not to just any agent, either

Even among registered agents, be careful. At ALITAX we have seen many operators promise “express tax refunds” and then take some or all of your money without your knowledge. Being registered is not enough on its own — check their reviews, and make sure they show you everything before lodging.

Please don’t scatter your details across 3 or 4 websites

A humble request

While you have engaged us, please be patient and let us do our work — and please don’t enter your personal information into three or four different websites at once. Running multiple agents or sites at the same time can create conflicts that delay or freeze your refund. If you decide you’d rather go elsewhere, just send us a WhatsApp message or email — we will delete you from our portal straight away, no hard feelings. All we ask is that you don’t spread your TFN everywhere.

Our reviews are hard-earned — and so is your trust

We have not bought or faked our reviews. They are hard-earned over years of looking after people properly. That is exactly why we ask you to trust the process and be patient with us — we have earned it, and we intend to keep earning it with your claim too.

At ALITAX we never take a cent without your permission

Here is our promise, in plain terms: we provide you a full summary of every single cent — what you are owed, what our agreed fee is, and what you will receive. At ALITAX we never take a single cent without your permission or beyond your agreed fee.

Two things we send you to sign

1. Quote approval — a summary of your super and tax, so you can decide whether to go ahead with us. 2. Your tax return — for e-signature, only after you have approved the quote. Two clear approvals, both in your hands. Nothing is lodged, and no fee is taken, until you have signed.

Not sure how this applies to you? At ALITAX we handle exactly these situations every day — and check what you’re owed in super and tax, for free.

🎥 Spoken version — video script (about 60 seconds)

Read straight to camera. Pause at each line break.

I want to talk to you about your tax file number, because this is where people get hurt.

Your tax file number is the key to your money. With that number and your date of birth, someone can pretend to be you. They can lodge a return in your name. They can try to claim your super.

We have seen it happen. Especially to workers who are overseas and cannot easily check.

So here are the rules.

Only two kinds of people should ever have your tax file number. Your employer, and a registered tax agent.

Not a friend who says they can help. Not someone in a group chat offering fast refunds. Not a company that will not tell you their agent number.

And if anyone asks you for your tax file number and your date of birth together, over social media or a messaging app, stop. That is the exact combination used to impersonate you.

You can check any tax agent yourself. The Tax Practitioners Board keeps a public register. Look them up. It takes one minute.

My registration number is two five two eight seven five six four. Check mine too. I would rather you verified me than trusted me blindly.

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✎ Written by Bilal Jivraj

Original work of Bilal Jivraj, Director and Registered Tax Agent (No. 25287564), ALITAX — based on 10+ years of DASP and tax casework. © 2026 ALITAX. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced, republished or distributed without the written permission of the author. When referenced, please cite ALITAX — Bilal Jivraj as the source.