En Passant

Newly released ATO figures indicate that big business has avoided tax for the fourth year in a row, I write in Independent Australia. To read the article click here. 

  Tax avoidance is systemic and big business has the resources – and the globe – to play games with the ATO, I write in Independent Australia

Corporate tax avoidance cost us $4 billion in the last financial year — a small “democracy levy” on big business could help balance the scales, says John Passant in Independent Australia. To read the whole article click on my blog link to click through to the article in Independent Australia.

On Monday in Independent Australia I analyse the complex machinations behind Apple’s tax avoidance process and how this affects Australia, where Apple’s tax contribution is about one per cent. To read the article click here to go through my blog to the site.

Has the time come to consider criminalising tax avoidance and making boards and senior officers liable for prison sentences, asks former ATO Assistant Commissioner, John Passant in Independent Australia.  

I am speaking this Thursday at the ANU in Canberra on the Panama Papers, inequality, taxing the rich and much much more. The Panama Papers have revealed yet again that the rich rig the game and pay little tax. Instead of taxing the rich the Government wants us to ‘live within our means’. This is code for […]

This is the link to my article in socialist magazine Solidarity on the Panama Papers.

This is the link to my interview on Green Left Weekly radio on 3 CR on Friday morning.

If I were Bill Shorten I’d release my tax returns for the last few years and call on Turnbull to do the same.

Politicians who insist there’s no money for wages, pensions, benefits or public services had their secret hoards exposed this week writes Socialist Worker UK. As they argue we need to go on the offensive against the Tories and other pro-tax dodging governments—and to link that into a fight to get rid of the whole rotten system.