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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A 200pc return from water? Nice work if you can get it!
Caymans company, Eastern Australia Irrigation, made a 200 per cent return from Australian water and cotton farms. Michael West reports on the serious accounting issues and fishy water valuations
Tax
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Top 40 Tax Heroes: who pays the most tax in Australia?
Which corporations make the best contribution to Australia's tax base, per dollar earned? Who tips in most for our defence and health, our roads and bridges?
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Watergate ducking and dodging: More questions from Jommy Tee and Ronni Salt
The saga of #Watergate – the $80 million water buyback fiasco – has now been widely canvassed. However, questions surrounding further mysterious parts of the issue still remain, especially concerning the long and very close relationship between two of the key figures in the story — Angus Taylor and Dr Tony Reid. Jommy Tee and Ronni Salt investigate.
Business
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Dracula Time: new pokies stats show community benefits are a mirage
Do clubs really return their pokies millions to the community? Investigation.
Markets
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Why Trump scores a “C” on economy
Those great economic and jobs numbers Trump brags about turn out to be just run-of-the-mill....
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Despatch
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MW30: the numbers which count
This is the "MW30", a bunch of numbers to track key changes in Australian politics and economy.
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Watergate: when two rights do make a wrong
The evidence is firming that the Government spent $80 million buying air, not water.
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Big Four: inquiry into government consultancy binge gets buried
The inquiry into the federal government’s spendathon on government contracts, especially on that global elite of corporate welfare recipients, the Big Four audit firms, has been axed
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Barnaby Joyce, Angus Taylor, Australia and the Caribbean
It is extraordinary that the profit from Barnaby Joyce’s record payment for Australian water rights, an $80 million payment of taxpayers’ money, found its way to a company in the Cayman Islands which had been set up by Angus Taylor, a company at which Taylor had been a director for six years
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Don’t let sneaky graphs fool you: minimum wages do not cost jobs
If this election is a referendum on wages, as Bill Shorten claims, then the minimum wage will be...
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KPMG: “do as I say, not as I do” just check out Aldi
Quod ego dico, non quod ego faciam. That should be KPMG’s motto. Do what I say, not what I do. It has a ring to it, but more importantly, it goes to the heart of the firm’s business model: quae abscondam – hide stuff.
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Revolving Doors
Australian politicians and bureaucrats with links to fossil fuel & resource extraction industries.
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