‘Special purpose’ approach by accountants hides corporate secretsBy Michael West | November 27, 2015The accounting profession has failed. It is a failure that comes at a cost to every man, woman and child in this ...
Funds are fattening up on superannuation feesBy Michael West | November 16, 2015Fees matter … a lot. The average 30 year old can expect to lose one quarter of his or her retirement savings in ...
Search for the biggest fat cat of the Australian super fund industryBy Michael West | November 14, 2015Being a super fund manager is hard yakka. You have to sit around being showered with millions of dollars of other ...
Malcolm Turnbull’s Cayman Islands connection isn’t the problemBy Michael West | October 15, 2015The priority for Parliament should remain pinging the big tax culprits – foreign-controlled multinationals. It ...
Identity theft: Macquarie Bank advances ‘over $20,000’ to Scrabble king impostorBy Michael West | September 18, 2015The bank told him he was a victim of identity theft. He told the bank, if he was a victim of anything, it was ...
Slated anti-money laundering legislation is comically overdueBy Michael West | September 14, 2015Which one of the following propositions is untrue? Australian property markets are awash with billions of ...
eBay’s no teddy bear when it comes to taxBy wlaws | June 27, 2015Hopes are high that the movie Ted 2 will live up to the sheer entertainment value of its progenitor, the talking ...
Chevron parents leave ATO an orphanBy Michael West | May 18, 2015Secretive oil major Chevron Corp has taken the art of tax avoidance to its ultimate form thanks to a scheme so ...
Banks ‘plunder’ travellers with forex fees on credit card transactionsBy Michael West | April 18, 2015Traveller Rob Gower went to an ATM the other day at Phuket Airport in Thailand. He withdrew 10,000 baht in cash. ...
Corporate tax: ex-ATO official criticises rushed settlements, ‘climate of fear’By Michael West | April 10, 2015A former Tax Office employee has told the Senate inquiry into corporate tax avoidance that the ATO is giving up ...
Rupert Murdoch’s US empire siphons $4.5b from Australian business virtually tax-freeBy Michael West | April 6, 2015Rupert Murdoch's media empire in the US has siphoned off $4.5 billion of cash and shares from his ...
Dynamic currency conversion – robbery by choiceBy Michael West | March 30, 2015As far as bank robberies go, this one is bigger, and just as fiendish, as any. It is called "dynamic currency ...
‘Special purpose’ approach by accountants hides corporate secretsBy Michael West | November 27, 2015The accounting profession has failed. It is a failure that comes at a cost to every man, woman and child in this ...
Funds are fattening up on superannuation feesBy Michael West | November 16, 2015Fees matter … a lot. The average 30 year old can expect to lose one quarter of his or her retirement savings in ...
Search for the biggest fat cat of the Australian super fund industryBy Michael West | November 14, 2015Being a super fund manager is hard yakka. You have to sit around being showered with millions of dollars of other ...
Malcolm Turnbull’s Cayman Islands connection isn’t the problemBy Michael West | October 15, 2015The priority for Parliament should remain pinging the big tax culprits – foreign-controlled multinationals. It ...
Identity theft: Macquarie Bank advances ‘over $20,000’ to Scrabble king impostorBy Michael West | September 18, 2015The bank told him he was a victim of identity theft. He told the bank, if he was a victim of anything, it was ...
Slated anti-money laundering legislation is comically overdueBy Michael West | September 14, 2015Which one of the following propositions is untrue? Australian property markets are awash with billions of ...
eBay’s no teddy bear when it comes to taxBy wlaws | June 27, 2015Hopes are high that the movie Ted 2 will live up to the sheer entertainment value of its progenitor, the talking ...
Chevron parents leave ATO an orphanBy Michael West | May 18, 2015Secretive oil major Chevron Corp has taken the art of tax avoidance to its ultimate form thanks to a scheme so ...
Banks ‘plunder’ travellers with forex fees on credit card transactionsBy Michael West | April 18, 2015Traveller Rob Gower went to an ATM the other day at Phuket Airport in Thailand. He withdrew 10,000 baht in cash. ...
Corporate tax: ex-ATO official criticises rushed settlements, ‘climate of fear’By Michael West | April 10, 2015A former Tax Office employee has told the Senate inquiry into corporate tax avoidance that the ATO is giving up ...
Rupert Murdoch’s US empire siphons $4.5b from Australian business virtually tax-freeBy Michael West | April 6, 2015Rupert Murdoch's media empire in the US has siphoned off $4.5 billion of cash and shares from his ...
Dynamic currency conversion – robbery by choiceBy Michael West | March 30, 2015As far as bank robberies go, this one is bigger, and just as fiendish, as any. It is called "dynamic currency ...