A former Australian Tax Office employee in Victoria has been convicted and sentenced for falsely claiming payments using the information and records of taxpayers.
Kasey Harries – from Ripponlea, an inner suburb in Melbourne – was sentenced to five months’ imprisonment. She had previously pleaded guilty to 10 charges, including obtaining financial advantage by deception and aiding and abetting another person to attempt to commit an offence.
The investigation – conducted by the National Anti-Corruption Commission and named Operation Hay – obtained evidence that, between October 2020 and April 2022, Harries used sensitive information obtained from four taxpayers through her employment at the ATO to create false accounts purporting to be genuine taxpayers. She also fraudulently claimed up to $60,000 in Covid-19 Test Isolation Payments and income tax refunds.
Harries was granted bail, pending an appeal against the sentence to the County Court of Victoria. The appeal is listed for 9 February 2026.
This is the eleventh successful conviction resulting from NACC-initiated or ongoing investigations.
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