Archive for 'Tax Office'
Fighting tax avoidance with a meme
Posted by John, May 13th, 2015 - under Tax avoidance, Tax Office.
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Is it time for the Senate to consider jailing the Treasurer and the Commissioner of Taxation?
Posted by John, April 8th, 2015 - under Chris Jordan, Commissioner of Taxation, Tax, Tax advisers, Tax avoidance, Tax Office, Tax reform, Tax terrorism.
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Given that both Joe Hockey and Chris Jordan are possibly undermining the work of the Senate and this committee by not providing the names of the tax rorters, and supporting that decision, the question has to be asked: Are the Treasurer and the Commissioner of Taxation in contempt of the Senate and the Committee? If so, why aren’t their actions being investigated with a view to prosecution?
Neoliberalism and the destruction of the Australian Tax Office
Posted by John, January 20th, 2015 - under ATO, Australian Tax Office, Chris Jordan, Neoliberalism, Tax, Tax avoidance, Tax evasion, Tax Office, Tax policy, Tax reform, Tax the rich.
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The outcome of neoliberal policy since 1983, when Hawke Labor began implementing it and laid out the red carpet for Howard and then Abbott, has been a massive shift in wealth in Australia from labour to capital. The process of neoliberal regulatory capture in tax policy and tax law has now, if Second Commissioner Mills’ speech is any indication, also successfully infected the administration of the Australian Tax Office. All the sweet words in the world will not disguise the fact that the fox is now in charge of the revenue hen house.
Joe Hockey is the best friend big business tax avoiders have
Posted by John, December 17th, 2014 - under Joe Hockey, Tax, Tax avoidance, Tax Office, Tax policy.
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When announcing that the Abbott government wouldn’t go ahead with the repeal of section 25-90, Hockey said they would introduce more targeted changes to address the issue. They abandoned even this pretence in Monday’s Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook. Evidently it would be impractical to go ahead with any changes. Impractical for whom Mr Hockey? Your rich and powerful tax avoiding mates.
I have a simple question for the Treasurer. Why don’t you tell us what the ATO thinks about section 25-90?
Joe Hockey is the best friend the big business tax avoiders have.
The Google tax and the tax office ‘auditing’ mutlinationals
Posted by John, December 9th, 2014 - under ATO, Australian Tax Office, Google, Tax, Tax avoidance, Tax Office.
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My letter today to the Australian Financial Review John Without seeing the detail of the so-called ‘Google tax’, as a former Assistant Commissioner of Taxation in the international area of the ATO it appears to me there is one possibly insurmountable problem, Australia’s double tax agreement with Singapore. (Phillip Coorey and Fleur Anderson, ‘Treasurer poised […]
Why is the ATO losing the battle against multinationals?
Posted by John, September 2nd, 2014 - under ATO, Australian Tax Office, Tax Office.
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Why the Australian Tax Office is losing the battle against the ‘transnationals’.
Global companies like Google, Starbucks and IKEA are cashing in on cuts to the Australian Taxation Office’s ability to make them pay their fair share of taxes here, an ATO insider has warned.
Click here to read more.
This echoes something I wrote in 2008 for the public sector informant in the Canberra Times.
Cost of Australian Tax Office job cuts outweighs salary savings
Posted by John, August 25th, 2014 - under ATO, Australian Tax Office, Tax Office.
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Me in today’s Canberra Times letters. Scroll about half way down. http://www.canberratimes.com.au/comment/ct-letters/big-parties-cashed-up-20140824-3e7x5.html
Australian Tax Office to lose 3000 staff by October; what happens to revenue collections from the rich and powerful, Commissioner?
Posted by John, July 15th, 2014 - under Tax, Tax avoidance, Tax cuts, Tax evasion, Tax expenditures, Tax havens, Tax Office, Tax policy, Tax the rich.
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The one percent has captured not only Parliament and tax policy but tax administration now too. If that is true, the conclusion we might then reach is that the slaughter of Tax Office jobs currently under way is actually an attempt to administratively reduce taxes on capital by weakening the capacity of the ATO to tax the rich and powerful. Certainly that fits in neatly with the neoliberal cut taxes mantra of most politicians and the Treasury.
Over to you Commissioner of Taxation.
Lessons for Australia? Tax workers strike to stop Tories’ job cuts
Posted by John, June 29th, 2014 - under Cuts, Fighting back, Strikes, Tax Office.
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Are there lessons for Australia in what tax staff in the UK are doing? Some 50,000 tax workers at HMRC offices around Britain began a week of rolling strikes on Monday of this week writes Annette Mackin in Socialist Worker UK.
Company tax avoidance in Australia: is it just one bad Apple?
Posted by John, March 9th, 2014 - under Apple, Google, Tax, Tax advisers, Tax avoidance, Tax havens, Tax Office, Tax reform, Tax the rich.
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Company tax avoidance is not a failing of capitalism: it is its logical expression.
There are two ways to really tax the rich. The first is for workers to win bigger pay increases to stop the bosses getting their hands on more of our money before they can play funny buggers with it. The second is to overthrow the capitalist system which produces corporate tax avoidance.