The Tax Office should prepare a test case to establish the limits of negative gearing. It might be more limited than has been widely assumed.
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Purporting to distribute money to children to take advantage of their tax-free thresholds sends
a message about how important it is to be truthful when complying with the tax law.
The reform will benefit the retirement incomes of millions of Australians, according to Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones
Australian landlords pay $1 billion less tax per year than the Tax Office believes they should, with almost all of the ‘errors’ in their favour.
New tax office figures show only 2% of Australians earn more than $211,000 a year.
Some tax deductions for the cost of managing tax affairs exceed $1 million, but high wealth individual\s can write off the expense in other ways.
We are failing to collect and giving away in tax concessions hundreds of billions.
Mandatory tax return disclosures for large companies were designed to increase public awareness of tax avoidance - but a new study reveals they may not work.
Overwhelmingly, trusts are used to minimise tax, avoid paying creditors and to avoid the fair division of property after a relationship breakdown.
The Australian government is using spyware. Is that legal?
The corporate veil, traditionally friend of directors and foe of outsiders, may have turned double agent.
New modelling shows governments need to ensure that corporations benefiting from the use of Australia’s resources, are contributing the same as they do in other jurisdictions.
In a speech to the National Press Club in Canberra, ACTU Secretary Sally McManus said 679 of Australia’s biggest corporations pay “not one cent of tax”. Is that right?
The ATO system crash was unusual, but it was handled as well as could be expected.
Attorney-General George Brandis has declined to say whether he told the then-solicitor-general, Justin Gleeson, not to run a particular argument in a High Court case.
Katter’s Australian Party federal MP Bob Katter said 30% of the Northern Territory’s farmland and 22% of Tasmania’s farmland is foreign-owned. Is that true?
Keeping public information about companies locked up behind paywalls and maintained by private interests is not in the public interest.
Australian companies could fall foul of the same state aid rules being applied to Apple to crack down on tax avoidance.
Australia is missing out on revenue from some gas projects because the petroleum resource rent tax doesn’t apply.
The ATO’s data dump of how much tax was paid by largest private companies raising more questions than it answers.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor of Taxation Law, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, Accounting, University of Technology Sydney
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PhD Candidate, casual academic, University of Technology Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor, Curtin Law School and Curtin Business School, Curtin University
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Lecturer, Accounting Discipline Group, University of Technology Sydney
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Research Director, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor - Department of Accounting and Corporate Governance, Macquarie University
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Tutor, University of Wollongong
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Adjunct Research Fellow, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Senior Lecturer, Charles Darwin University
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Professor, Accounting Discipline Group, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Taxation, QUT Business School, and ARC Future Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor, University of Sydney
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Professor of Political Science; Director, Tasmanian Policy Exchange, University of Tasmania
