Tag: Australian Tax Office
Apple’s double Irish Dutch sandwich with a serve of tax avoidance
Posted by John, September 5th, 2016 - under Tax, Tax avoidance.
Tags: Apple, Australian Tax Office
Comments: none
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.
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Memo to the Australian Tax Office: You offshoring jobs is the same as business offshoring profits
Posted by John, February 7th, 2016 - under Job cuts, Tax avoidance.
Tags: ATO, Australian Tax Office, Commissioner of Taxation
Comments: 10
Saving money, the driver for cutting the ATO staff by 20%, is also the driver of big business tax avoidance. Business tax avoidance is systemic. It requires a systemic response, not Tax Office staff cuts.
Neoliberalism and the destruction of the Australian Tax Office
Posted by John, January 20th, 2015 - under Neoliberalism, Tax, Tax avoidance, Tax evasion, Tax Office, Tax policy, Tax reform, Tax the rich.
Tags: ATO, Australian Tax Office, Chris Jordan
Comments: 4
The outcome of neoliberal policy since 1983, when Hawke Labor began implementing it and laid out the red carpet for Howard and then Abbott, has been a massive shift in wealth in Australia from labour to capital. The process of neoliberal regulatory capture in tax policy and tax law has now, if Second Commissioner Mills’ speech is any indication, also successfully infected the administration of the Australian Tax Office. All the sweet words in the world will not disguise the fact that the fox is now in charge of the revenue hen house.
The Google tax and the tax office ‘auditing’ mutlinationals
Posted by John, December 9th, 2014 - under Tax, Tax avoidance, Tax Office.
Tags: ATO, Australian Tax Office, Google
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My letter today to the Australian Financial Review John Without seeing the detail of the so-called ‘Google tax’, as a former Assistant Commissioner of Taxation in the international area of the ATO it appears to me there is one possibly insurmountable problem, Australia’s double tax agreement with Singapore. (Phillip Coorey and Fleur Anderson, ‘Treasurer poised […]
Why is the ATO losing the battle against multinationals?
Posted by John, September 2nd, 2014 - under Tax Office.
Tags: ATO, Australian Tax Office
Comments: 1
Why the Australian Tax Office is losing the battle against the ‘transnationals’.
Global companies like Google, Starbucks and IKEA are cashing in on cuts to the Australian Taxation Office’s ability to make them pay their fair share of taxes here, an ATO insider has warned.
Click here to read more.
This echoes something I wrote in 2008 for the public sector informant in the Canberra Times.
Cost of Australian Tax Office job cuts outweighs salary savings
Posted by John, August 25th, 2014 - under Tax Office.
Tags: ATO, Australian Tax Office
Comments: 4
Me in today’s Canberra Times letters. Scroll about half way down. http://www.canberratimes.com.au/comment/ct-letters/big-parties-cashed-up-20140824-3e7x5.html
The real duds in the Australian Tax Office
Posted by John, August 20th, 2014 - under Job cuts.
Tags: 1%, ATO, Australian Tax Office
Comments: 4
It is my understanding that the loss of long term experienced tax officers is already having an impact on revenue collections and with more job cuts to come the decline in collections, especially from the tax risk takers in big business, will only get worse. But not to worry. Treasurer Joe Hockey can just use that as further ‘evidence’ to back up his false claims about a Budget emergency and cut more public services and public service jobs. The 1% will be pleased.
The new Commissioner of Taxation – a reprise
Posted by John, November 13th, 2012 - under Michael D'Ascenzo, Tax, Tax Office.
Tags: Australian Tax Office, Chris Jordan, Commissioner of Taxation
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Has newly appointed Commissioner of Taxation Chris Jordan been involved in tax avoidance arrangements for his clients or even himself? Will he, for example, release his tax returns for the last ten years?
Tax Commissioner axed
Posted by John, October 26th, 2012 - under Michael D'Ascenzo, Tax, Tax avoidance, Tax design, Tax Office, Tax policy, Tax reform, Tax the rich.
Tags: ATO, Australian Tax Office, Commissioner of Taxation
Comments: 2
Tax Office staff are in shock over the Labor Government’s axing of the Commissioner of Taxation, Michael D’Ascenzo. More shocks are in store. What better way to gut the Tax Office than for business to appoint one of their own to lead it? Is there an alternative? Yes. Tax the rich and give the ATO enough funding for it to do its job as the collector of tax rather than the handmaiden of business. Make the rich pay. That is something Labor won’t do.
Tax, tax and more (or should that be less?) tax
Posted by John, October 25th, 2012 - under Tax, Tax avoidance, Tax cuts, Tax design, Tax expenditures, Tax Office, Tax policy, Tax reform, Tax the rich.
Tags: ATO, Australian Tax Office, Commissioner of Taxation
Comments: 5
The Treasurer has today been telling us the Minerals Resource Rent Tax is working precisely as it should – not raising any tax. The hospital in Yes Minister worked perfectly too – it didn’t have any patients.