Top 40 Tax Dodgers for 2019
We are counting down Australia’s biggest Corporate Tax Dodgers using 4 years Australian Tax Office transparency data.
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Franking credits: if you’re old enough to understand super, you’re too late
John: Didn’t Kelly O’Dwyer put some sort of limit on how much you could end up with in your super fund? Peter: Yes. She capped it at $1.6 million. From 1 July 2017. John: $1.6 million? How many years is that going to take if you’re only allowed to put in $25,000 a year? Peter: Sixty-four years Dad.
Tax
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ABC Sydney Breakfast with Wendy Harmer and Robbie Buck
Talking Top40 Tax Dodgers, Exxon EnergyAustralia and the Healthscope Hospitals to tax havens transaction with Wendy Harmer and Robbie Buck on ABC 702.
Energy
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Energy Australia: four years, $30 billion, zero tax
Energy Australia is owned by a company in the infamous tax haven of the British Virgin Islands. For the fourth year on the trot, the gas and electricity behemoth paid zero income tax
Government
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Poisoning the Well: Liberal spending splurge to bury Labor in debt
The explosion in government spending which suddenly ramped up last May will leave the incoming government buried in debt but worse, it will leave whoever wins the impending federal election tied to billions of dollars in spending commitments which never went to tender.
Business
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Independent media continues to grow while mainstream media stagnates
With independent media on the rise, author and commentator, Kim Wingerei, who has just launched theIndependents, looks at the top performers. Traffic for this website is up 60 per cent
Markets
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ABC’s Jon Faine: Healthscope interview
Chatting with ABC Melbourne's Jon Faine on the Healthscope takeover and the impending transfer of 43 Australian hospitals to a Caribbean tax haven.
The Scomo-ment
Chronicles of a Fleeting Prime Minister
Scomo-ment
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Four months of fear and prayers: medicine a nation needs to turn to Scott
AUSTRALIA'S SIXTH shortest serving Prime Minister is in a bind. Having streaked past Chris Watson’s 113 days in office late last year, Scott is now sitting pretty as the clear No 25 of Australia’s 30 PMs
Despatch
News Takes and Updates
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Privatisations still need scrutiny despite A-G report
Coincidently, while we were busy chiding the state government yesterday for its mega-willy-nilly privatisation program, the NSW Auditor-General, Margaret Crawford, issued a report which was critical of the $16 billion sale of Ausgrid.
Sydney Democracy Network
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When it comes to tax, it’s Virgin by name and Virgin by nature
Virgin Australia founder Sir Richard Branson actually resides in a tax haven. He even has his own island, Necker Island, in the infamous archipelago of tax secrecy, the British Virgin Islands.
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The Low GI Label: sound science or a ploy for product promotion?
Is it ethical to promote the health benefits of “low GI” labelling? How about multinational food companies paying to have their products certified? At best, it provides little value to the consumer, writes science journalist Dr Maryanne Demasi
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Democracy Gamed: how Tasmania was sold to a pokies family from interstate
I don’t know of any Australian election since the democratic reforms of the late nineteenth century, that was so directly, so openly, so brazenly influenced by large corporate interests
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Saving the Deal: cover-up over Northern Beaches Hospital sale to the Caribbean
Premier Gladys Berejiklian cut the ribbon at the Northern Beaches Hospital on a Monday afternoon last November. Hours later, the hospital’s anaesthetists were demanding the private operator Healthscope fix staff shortages, equipment shortages, drug shortages.
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Sluice Gate – money laundering and real estate shape as an election issue
Most Aussies, especially first homebuyers, would be furious to learn they’re competing for houses with people who are trying to wash the proceeds of illicit drug sales, fraud or corruption
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Why we need to take action to curb the financial services sector
Our bloated financial services industry is sucking the economy dry. It’s time to take action...
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From the Northern Beaches of Sydney to the Northern Beaches of George Town, Cayman Islands
Barack Obama once described it as “either this is the largest building in the world or the largest tax scam in the world”. That was in 2009. The building was Ugland House in George Town on the Caribbean island of Gran Cayman.
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After Australia’s worst two years on record, do retailers see the problem?
Analysts warn that Australian retailers are going bust in record numbers. Seems the Australian...
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Hayne’s Final: impressive tinkering but big banking flaws remain (Part 2)
Customer service failed to get a guernsey in Commissioner Hayne’s Final Report and herein...
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Dutton’s visa backlog a honeypot for spivs, carpetbaggers, people smugglers
Another Dutton mess. This time citizenship processing of applicants arriving by air. Former Deputy...
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The Kitchen Table: the Quest for John Howard’s Cash Offset
John: Our paymaster says we’ve got to get onto the “John Howard offset”. That’s the one that really pays out.
Peter: It’s the big one … it’s not like all the other offsets, this one is the only one you might be able to get in cash.
Errr… anyone noticed asylum seekers pouring into Australia in record numbers by air?
John Menadue cuts through the hysterical fear campaign surrounding “boat arrivals” with a few sober facts about other “arrivals”, demonstrating that refugees are simply being used for political expedience.
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Revolving Doors
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