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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The Kitchen Table: Penny the pensioner pays the kids’ private school fees with her franking credits pension
Brenda: So the government would give me $6,478 if I stopped working and owned shares instead. Peter: Seeing that the dole is $14,305, you’d nearly be getting half the dole, Mum.
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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.
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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
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Greg Barns: the Rise of the Right and the War on Australia’s Liberal Values
In his latest book, 'Rise of the Right: The War on Australia's Liberal Values', barrister and commentator, Greg Barns, traces the rise of the hard right in the Liberal Party. Right-wing populists, he finds, are engaged in mutually assured destruction with the remaining party "centrists".
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Image over Substance: AFR Business Summit calls for a better “narrative”
Australia’s business elite remains convinced all it needs to do to restore community trust...
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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
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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
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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.
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Anti-money laundering reforms thwarted by “vested interests”, say Greens
Financial crime expert, Nathan Lynch, follows up on his earlier report this week ‘Sluice...
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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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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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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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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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Scott John Morrison: Where the bloody hell did he come from?
It’s not every Prime Minister who loses a vote on his government’s own legislation....
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Hayne’s Final: impressive tinkering but big banking flaws remain
Although Hayne has handed down an impressive document, it is essentially an exercise in tinkering and, even if implemented and enforced by a suddenly lively force of regulators, would not be enough to fix the fundamental flaws in Australia’s banking culture
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Is Howard’s Kyoto con trick about to be played out again?
Are former PM John Howard’s ill-gotten Kyoto credits about to be played out again? Experts...
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The Kitchen Table: a Franking Credits Revelation
“So, the government gives you money every time the Commonwealth Bank gives you money?”
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Australian independent media on the rise
The coming of the Internet was the media world’s first real game-changer. Profits enjoyed...
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