Quod ego dico, non quod ego faciam. That should be KPMG's motto. Do what I say, not what I do. It has a ring to it, but more importantly, it goes to the heart of the firm's business model: quae ...
The Big Four, the relentless architects of global tax avoidance, have returned to the insolvency business, despite selling out of it 15 years ago because of overweening conflicts of interests.
Analysts warn that Australian retailers are going bust in record numbers. Seems the Australian Retailers Association has finally joined the dots and leapt on rising household costs and low ...
It is no small irony that this tax dodger is subject to a takeover by another tax dodger, Brookfield, whose secretive entity BPIH romped into the Top 40 this year at #32.
Is yet another suite of essential Australian assets headed off to a tax haven? Michael West reports on the takeover of private hospital operator Healthscope and its Caribbean-connected suitors.
It boasts of a steady rise in profits and payouts to shareholders every year. So how does a company which sells building products keep paying no tax during a building boom?
It's parent is in Bermuda. It owns essential port and rail assets in Australia. Its taxable income is zero over four years. It has made capital returns to Bermuda of $920 million in the past two years.
Mining and engineering services group UGL was acquired by construction giant CIMIC in a takeover two years ago. It has recorded zero taxable income for four years straight.
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Booking.com should be at or near the top of the Tax Office's list of grand tax avoiders but the revenue authorities seem wilfully blind to the true nature of this giant online travel agency
A classic of corporate obfuscation. Burns Philp is owned by Kiwi corporate raider Graeme Hart, via his Rank Group. Rank has two holding company structures in Australia of which Burns Philp ...
It is fitting that this company kicks off our Top 40 Tax Dodgers chart for 2019. Victoria Power Networks has all the hallmarks of the unscrupulous corporate tax cheat: tax haven ...
They dodge tax, they gouge their customers. They even have their paws out for government grants. Michael West reports on the debut of Victoria Power Networks.