May 2024
Global push to get tax advisers to think ethically
New rules have been agreed to help restore trust in a profession battered by wrongdoing, including the PwC tax leaks scandal.
January 2024
Warning over Hong Kong ties to Defence security contracts
A company with links to Hong Kong businessmen is responsible for providing security at some of Australia’s most sensitive defence bases.
November 2023
What is Cyprus Confidential?
An eight-month investigation of 3.6 million leaked documents has uncovered how Cyprus offshore firms helped Russian elites hide their wealth.
July 2023
ATO captures billions of dollars from tax cheats with AI
The ATO is using artificial intelligence to trawl through its large data sets and deliver new insights that are impossible for humans to identify.
August 2022
Why the West is to blame for Vladimir Putin
In a new biography, Philip Short argues the Russian President should be given the benefit of the doubt.
March 2022
Anagenics boss defends Lyramid sale to Panamanian holding company
After Monday’s resignation, Maria Halasz said via a lawyer that a deal to sell a subsidiary to a Panamanian holding company was in shareholders’ interests.
October 2021
Banking leak opens Pandora’s box of offshore accounts
More than 400 Australians have been named in a huge exposure of companies and financial institutions that has revealed secret investments and real estate deals.
January 2021
Panama Papers tax haul tops $143 million
One of the largest leaks of confidential financial information in history has led to 500 audits and reviews by the Tax Office.
September 2019
New movie is 'Big Short' of tax world
In a similar manner to 'The Big Short' about the GFC, 'The Laundromat', based on the Panama Papers, quirkily explains shell companies and offshore accounts.