When Ali Noroozi took the job as head of the taxation watchdog, the Inspector-General of Taxation in 2008, it was likened to David taking on Goliath.
The office had been formed five years earlier, had embarrassingly few resources and a massive mandate to oversee the most powerful and arguably least scrutinised regulator in the country, the Australian Taxation Office (ATO).
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