Monday, April 20, 2026

Companies that paid NO TAX 2013-2014

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...

Is there any hope for gambling reform in a new parliament?

Charles Livingstone, Monash University Since then-prime minister Julia Gillard appointed Peter Slipper to the speaker’s chair in 2011, the gambling lobby has appeared triumphant in defeating any substantial reform of gambling regulation. Slipper became speaker because...

How the Property Council is shaping the debate around negative gearing, taxes

Nicole Gurran, University of Sydney and Peter Phibbs, University of Sydney We see their spokespeople quoted in the papers and their ads on TV, but beyond that we know very little about how Australia’s lobby...

Tax avoidance tactics laid bare: PwC tells multinationals ‘read the play’

The proposed voluntarily tax transparency code announced in the May budget is not worth the piece of paper it is written on. The code is all about spin rather than substance, aimed at helping multinationals...

Multinational tax avoidance cost Australia $6bn in 2014, Oxfam report claims

Mauritius is one of the most popular tax havens used by multinational corporations operating in Australia, an Oxfam report found. Photograph: Neil Farrin/Getty Images/AWL Images RM The Oxfam Report calls on government to strengthen Australia’s...

Needy or Greedy: Pollie Perks never enough

A group of retired politicians trying to claw bigger pensions and more free travel from the taxpayer will get their day in court next month. The High Court has agreed to hear the challenge by...

Business Expenses or Rorts? – $47 Million in six months

Australia’s own version of the Panama papers is the Report of the Independent Parliamentary Entitlements System Review, February 2016. A secret alliance between Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull to join forces to become the Gordon Gekko...

Big four accounting firms avoid scrutiny in multinational tax avoidance

Not convinced: Labor Senator and tax avoidance inquiry committee Chair Sam Dastyari says corporate tax cheats should be named and shamed by the tax office. The Senate Inquiry into corporate tax avoidance is due to...

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