Archive for 'Wickenby'
White-collar criminals on easy street
Posted by John, July 30th, 2011 - under White-collar crime, Wickenby.
Comments: 3
We shouldn’t send rich men to jail for their tax fraud. Jail wouldn’t be good for them. It’s the place for working class men.
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Wickenby – the rich begin to scream
Posted by John, September 12th, 2010 - under Tax, Wickenby.
Comments: 1
This is a letter I sent to the Australian Financial Review recently. Peter Haggstrom is the former Special Adviser on Taxation to the Commonwealth Ombudsman. John. ‘I wrote recently that the success of Wickenby can perhaps be measured by the increasing shrillness of the response. But Peter Haggstrom (Letters Friday 10 September) has captured the [...]
Tax terrorism: re-thinking Wickenby
Posted by John, September 6th, 2010 - under Tax Office, Tax avoidance, Tax evasion, Tax havens, Tax terrorism, Tax the rich, Wickenby.
Comments: 8
Tax terrorists are a greater threat to Australian society than individuals wanting to blow up public buildings and kill tens of people. Stop tax terrorism. Make the rich pay.
The Tax Office and Wickenby: another day, another crisis
Posted by Bill, April 24th, 2009 - under ATO, Australian Tax Office, Big business, Project Wickenby, Tax, Tax Office, Tax avoidance, Tax evasion, Wickenby.
Comments: none
The problem may be that the Australian Tax Office has too little power, not too much.
9,000 Tax Office jobs to go?
Posted by John, February 15th, 2009 - under ALP, Australian politics, Capitalism, Change program, Fighting back, Labor Party, Neoliberalism, Outsourcing, Privatisation, Tax, Trade unions, Unions, Wickenby, Workplace madness, efficiency dividend, sackings, unemployment.
Comments: 27
The crisis in the Australian Tax Office is deepening. Those who administer our tax system want to massively cut the number of full time permanent ATO staff and privatise essential operations.