Is your Tax File Number connected to your Driver's licence/ medicare/ birthcertificate on mygov
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Hi @Bellatozza1983,
In short, no. Your Tax File number (TFN) is a personal reference number for tax and superannuation purposes, and is an important number for proving your identity.
Although you can access your TFN through myGov (if you've linked ATO online to your myGov account), it's not directly connected to your other forms of identity, such as your birth certificate or driver's licence.
Similarly, Medicare are a different government agency to us. So although you can have numerous government services linked to your myGov account, they're completely separate to each other and can't access other agency information via your myGov account.
Hopefully that makes sense? :)
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Hi @Bellatozza1983,
In short, no. Your Tax File number (TFN) is a personal reference number for tax and superannuation purposes, and is an important number for proving your identity.
Although you can access your TFN through myGov (if you've linked ATO online to your myGov account), it's not directly connected to your other forms of identity, such as your birth certificate or driver's licence.
Similarly, Medicare are a different government agency to us. So although you can have numerous government services linked to your myGov account, they're completely separate to each other and can't access other agency information via your myGov account.
Hopefully that makes sense? :)
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