Gloria Hill wins $65,000 tax bill fight against Australian Tax Office The ATO has waived Gloria Hill's $65,000 tax bill she received after ticking the wrong box on paperwork. A $65,000 tax bill incurred in error by a Trott Park woman who ticked the wrong box has been waived. Gloria Hill, 68 - who said she would go to jail rather than pay - was initially billed $48,000 by the Australian Tax Office because she ticked the "employer" contribution box instead of "personal" when transferring money into superannuation. The bill grew by $560 interest a month while Ms Hill sought legal advice and appealed. A bureaucratic stalemate went on for more than a year until a story earlier this month in The Advertiser, and intervention in her case by South Australian independent Senator Nick Xenophon. Until then the ATO had given the Finance Department no clear advice on her case, only that it would "not be adverse (sic) " to granting a waiver. On September 13 the Department went back to the ATO for clarification about Ms Hill's request and the ATO then provided clear advice that it was "sympathetic to Ms Hill's circumstances in relation to this debt" and supported a waiver. Senator Xenophon said the ruling was a good result. "It's great to see common sense has finally prevailed," he said. Ms Hill said she felt as though a weight had been lifted, even though she did not believe the money was ever owed. The mistake was made when she was winding up a business and paid money into her superannuation. By ticking the incorrect box, she was unable to offset the amount against her income tax. "This has been going on for five years," she said. It's been very, very stressful. She said she doubted if the ATO would have seen reason without the intervention of Senator Xenophon earlier this month. "Nick's the one that really helped me," she said. He clinched it. She said there must be other people in the system, like her, who were being subjected to unnecessary stress because of the ATO.