A public servant turned whistleblower employed by the Australian Taxation Office has this morning had his home raided by officers from the ATO and the Australian Federal Police, after speaking with a major joint Four Corners and Fairfax investigation into alleged abuse of power by the tax office.

ATO whistleblower Richard Boyle's home was raided this morning in Adelaide.

Adelaide-based Richard Boyle, who has worked at the ATO as a debt collector since 2005, has told the ABC his rental unit in suburban Edwardstown was raided by a team of four AFP officers accompanied by an ATO investigator.

“This is an astonishing use of public resources, to investigate someone who has passionately and with every fibre of my being tried to assist taxpayers in meeting their tax obligations and to enforce taxpayers who are ripping the country off by not paying their fair share of tax,” he said.

Mr Boyle said the officers arrived at his door at about 8 o'clock this morning. He was still in his dressing gown and didn’t have time to change. Mr Boyle attempted to film the raid but the AFP officers seized his mobile phone, and the phone of his fiancée.