Archive for 'Tax advisers'
Is it time for the Senate to consider jailing the Treasurer and the Commissioner of Taxation?
Posted by John, April 8th, 2015 - under Tax, Tax advisers, Tax avoidance, Tax Office, Tax reform, Tax terrorism.
Tags: Chris Jordan, Commissioner of Taxation
Comments: 2
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?
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Joe Hockey really truly will crack down on tax avoidance, and pigs might fly
Posted by John, February 16th, 2015 - under Joe Hockey, Tax, Tax advisers, Tax avoidance.
Comments: 1
The next time the Treasurer tells you he has to cut pensions, aboriginal services, women’s refuges, health or education funding, ask him why he doesn’t shut down the section 25-90 rort and use the $600 million a year on something socially useful. What about it Mr Hockey? This of course is the same Mr Hockey happy to see Chris Jordan, the former NSW manager of major tax avoidance ‘planning’ firm, KPMG, and current Commissioner of Taxation, destroy the Australian Tax Office and its already meagre capacity to police the rich and powerful tax avoiders and evaders. Regulatory capture is the word I think we are searching for here, Mr Hockey.
Company tax avoidance in Australia: is it just one bad Apple?
Posted by John, March 9th, 2014 - under Tax, Tax advisers, Tax avoidance, Tax havens, Tax Office, Tax reform, Tax the rich.
Tags: Apple, Google
Comments: 5
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.
It’s the Tax Office the Australian left should be worried about
Posted by John, December 23rd, 2013 - under Tax, Tax advisers, Tax avoidance, Tax cuts, Tax evasion, Tax Office.
Tags: ATO, Chris Jordan, Commissioner of Taxation
Comments: 7
This may be the logic. Trickle down will increase revenue. The less tax we collect today from companies will magically produce more economic activity in the future. So having people in charge of the Australian Tax Office who ‘understand’ business and the realities they face is just what capital needs. To business, tax is just another cost and the lower the costs the higher the profit and the better off all of us will be
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Tax advisers – vultures on humanity
Posted by John, September 7th, 2009 - under Tax, Tax advisers, Tax avoidance, Tax cuts, Tax design, Tax policy, Tax the rich.
Comments: 3
Tax advisers are vultures on humanity. They feed on our living flesh with their demands for exorbitant sums for their knowledge of arcane tax laws. We mere mortals bow before these Delphic oracles and shower them with gifts for their ill-gotten insights. The bottom feeders eat the droppings of ordinary taxpayers and charge us for the privilege. The […]