$1b channelled through tax avoiding payroll company

Joanna Mather, Neil Chenoweth, Geoff Winestock and Fleur Anderson

Updated May 20, 2017 – 5.33pm, first published at May 19, 2017 – 9.00pm

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More than $1 billion in wages was channelled through the payroll company at the heart of the fraud case that has rocked the Australian Tax Office and left thousands of clients without pay.

Police made another arrest on Thursday night at Sydney Airport when Simon Anquetil, who turns 34 next week, was detained upon his return to Australia.

Joanna Mather joined the AFR as an education reporter in 2008. She spent four years in the Canberra press gallery before becoming superannuation reporter in 2016, deputy news director in 2021 and wealth editor in 2023.

Neil Chenoweth was a senior writer for The Australian Financial Review

Geoff Winestock writes on News specialising in Politics, Economy, Policy.

Fleur Anderson is based in the Canberra newsroom and writes on politics, policy and the economy. Fleur is known for writing the Financial Review's parliamentary sketch.