The List of Australian Companies that PAID NO TAX in 2013 -2014
How to generate revenues of A$452,784,661,933 and PAY NO TAX
Lifters or Learners?
In a future article we will investigate if there are political donors in this list -
even though they made insufficient profit to pay tax!
Pigsfly Newspaper Supporter
Unlike many...
Vital Signs: the spooky mortgage risk signs our bankers are ignoring
There are signs our frothy housing market, combined with rising interest rates, could have serious consequences for our economy.
Nick Vidal-Hall/Flickr, CC BY-SA
Richard Holden, UNSW
Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden...
ATO Corporate Tax Report 2013-204 or
TURBULL wants to give these guys Tax Breaks
Why?
More than a third of large public and private companies paid no tax in 2014-15, with 36 per cent of large firms reporting zero tax payable.
More than a third of large public and private companies paid no tax in 2014-15, with 36 per cent of large firms reporting zero tax payable.
The Australian Taxation Office was working with the government to ensure that it had the right public "messaging" before releasing its tax gap figures,...
Kate Griffiths, Grattan Institute
A year ago, the power system went down in South Australia. Homes and businesses across the state were without electricity for hours, some for days. While its specific causes have already been worked through, the nation’s most widespread blackout in decades quickly became a symbol of...
Hard to believe, isn’t it? But it’s true: in the last decade, tens of thousands of square kilometers of Queensland farmland has been covered in gas fields.
The export gas rush in Australia is one of the largest and fastest expansions of a gas industry ever seen, anywhere in the...
Are we ready for Robotopia, when robots replace the human workforce?
Sean Welsh, University of Canterbury
Automation has disrupted work for centuries. Two hundred years ago in Britain, the Luddites rose in rebellion, smashing the machines that made their weaving skills obsolete.
Today it’s high status cognitive jobs that are under...
Australia must catch up with Papua New Guinea on how we tax gas
Diane Kraal, Monash University
Papua New Guinea’s 2017 budget takes big steps in resource tax reform. Following suggestions that I made together with former Labor minister Craig Emerson, starting next year resources companies operating in Papua New Guinea...
Mark Chou, Australian Catholic University; Gorana Grgic, University of Sydney; Kumuda Simpson, La Trobe University; Peter Christoff, University of Melbourne, and Rodney Maddock, Monash University
Leading Australian academics respond to Donald Trump’s victory, and look ahead to what kind of president he might be.
Much unknown about Trump’s foreign policy, but...
Deaths at Dreamworld theme park could lead to safety changes for amusement rides
David Eager, University of Technology Sydney
Investigations are under way following the tragic accident at the Dreamworld theme park on the Gold Coast on Tuesday that left four people dead.
Queensland Police say initial investigations show that six people...