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Australian women are being lumped with their abusive partners’ crippling debts as financial services field increasing calls for help. The Australian Taxation Office is frequently being roped into situations in which men put their company tax debts into their current or ex-partners’ names, UNSW researchers revealed on Wednesday. Women often discovered the debts, linked to companies they did not know they were signatories to, long after escaping their relationships.
The organisation on Wednesday launched an education campaign to raise awareness of financial abuse, with chief executive Kelly-ann Tansley calling on the federal government to expand the service to become a national financial abuse phone counselling line. “The Zahra Foundation two years ago was ready to go and expand our services nationwide,” Tansley said,.
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