Tax avoidance
Tax attack could be next challenge for cash-strapped shoppers
Shoppers have yet to dip into their stage 3 tax cuts to boost spending. And they may face a new problem – the tax man.
- by Shane Wright
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Naked City
Where there are smokes there are fires: Inside Victoria’s tobacco war
Property owners knowingly making money from an illicit source could find their income and the property subject to asset seizure.
- by John Silvester
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Superannuation
A bunch of ‘bunchers’: The tax-time trick the rich love to use
High-income earners are using trusts and self-employment to bring their “official” income down to avoid higher tax on their superannuation.
- by Shane Wright
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ATO targets directors over $2.5 billion in unpaid super, GST, employee income tax
Directors who have amassed large assets, such as trophy homes and flash boats, while not passing on collected taxes to the government, are some of the first in the firing line.
- by Sarah Danckert
A bunch of bunchers – how people tweak their income to sneak below the tax rates
New research has revealed Australia is filled with people who use trusts and other quirks to pick their tax rate as wage earners pay full freight.
- by Shane Wright
We need our own tax cops to chase cheats: ATO chief
The retiring head of the tax office, Chris Jordan, says the organisation needs more powers as criminals attempt to fleece taxpayers and steal their identities.
- by Shane Wright
Dob in a dodgy tax adviser or face jail: New laws to stop another PwC scandal
The Greens have also secured an amendment for “kicking the foxes out of the hen house” for transparency at the Tax Practitioner Board.
- by Angus Thompson
ATO claws back record $6.4 billion in multinational crackdown
A $1 billion settlement with Rio Tinto underpinned the record windfall secured by the ATO’s tax avoidance taskforce.
- by Lisa Visentin and Shane Wright
Investigation
Australian soccer
The tax haven, the PO box, the tropical island: Who owns Australian soccer
The A-Leagues’ major shareholder owns its stake in Australian professional soccer via a series of offshore tax havens, including an infamous PO box in the Cayman Islands.
- by Ben Schneiders
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ATO
Hotel giant Hilton battles ATO over alleged tax avoidance scheme
The tax office is seeking penalties and unpaid taxes of over $80 million, alleging the company set up a scheme to avoid paying tax on the sale of a Sydney hotel in 2015.
- by Sarah Danckert
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Crime
Buckets of cash: How Chinese group withdrew $137m to avoid paying tax
The criminal group paid the wages of construction workers in cash without any superannuation or income tax for projects across Sydney and Canberra.
- by Perry Duffin
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