People pressured into repaying unfair robotax debts should be compensated, critics say

Government plan to fix fiasco' doesn't go far enough for those who have already paid debts put on hold before 2017, Andrew Wilkie says

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A federal government plan to unwind a callous" tax campaign designed to extract historical debts does not go far enough and should include compensation for those who were unfairly pressured into making payments, critics of the scheme say.

The Australian Taxation Office program dubbed robotax" was designed to raise as much as $15.2bn by pursuing an assortment of debts - many of which were inadvertently accrued decades ago and had been hidden from taxpayers.

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