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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.
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The reform will benefit the retirement incomes of millions of Australians, according to Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones
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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.
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New tax office figures show only 2% of Australians earn more than $211,000 a year.
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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.
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We are failing to collect and giving away in tax concessions hundreds of billions.
With the second and third releases of ATO tax transparency data, the was no reaction from the financial markets at all, not even for those firms included in the disclosures.
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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.
Anyone can use a discretionary trust but the beneficiaries of trusts are usually all part of the one family or extended family.
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Overwhelmingly, trusts are used to minimise tax, avoid paying creditors and to avoid the fair division of property after a relationship breakdown.
Australian government agencies are employing the services of spyware company Cellebrite.
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The Australian government is using spyware. Is that legal?
Adam Cranston, is facing charges in relation to his alleged involvement in the Plutus Payroll tax fraud case. Cases like this highlight how the corporate veil works.
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The corporate veil, traditionally friend of directors and foe of outsiders, may have turned double agent.
If Australia adopted a similar approach to the Hong Kong to eliminate debt loading abuse, United States oil and gas giant Chevron would have been denied A$6.275 billion in interest deductions.
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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.
ACTU Secretary Sally McManus addressing the National Press Club in Canberra.
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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 crash didn’t involve a fire, but it almost looked that bad for a while.
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The ATO system crash was unusual, but it was handled as well as could be expected.
What George Brandis did or did not tell Justin Gleeson is at the heart of a major political row embroiling him and the federal and WA governments.
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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.
The Australian Tax Office has found that nearly 14% of Australian farmland is held by foreign investors.
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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?
ASIC charges businesses and individuals around A$50 million each year for company searches.
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Keeping public information about companies locked up behind paywalls and maintained by private interests is not in the public interest.
In the EU, Apple has made a powerful enemy.
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Australian companies could fall foul of the same state aid rules being applied to Apple to crack down on tax avoidance.
Chevron’s Gorgon project is one of a few in Australia subject to the petroleum resource rent tax.
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Australia is missing out on revenue from some gas projects because the petroleum resource rent tax doesn’t apply.
The tax paid by some household names has been revealed.
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The ATO’s data dump of how much tax was paid by largest private companies raising more questions than it answers.