The ultimate “take-out” is that the cost of government is rising, not falling, despite the cuts to bureaucracy and despite the rhetoric of private sector efficiency
Of the half a billion dollars earmarked for the Great Barrier Reef in Tuesday's Budget, the lion's share goes to a foundation with climate-denial links and whose patrons make the largest ...
While the standards-setter AASB continues its three year dither on disclosure, the Board of Taxation continues to be stacked with people linked to Big Four firms that advise on how to avoid ...
There was one simple goal: to find out how much income tax was paid by Glencore, Australia's biggest coal miner. Our quest had more spills than a Blues Brothers movie. We were met with the ...
Headquartered in Baar, Switzerland, the history of this global miner and commodities trader has all the hallmarks of a gripping corporate thriller, if anybody were game to write it. Founder Marc ...
Senate hearing, April 24, 2018
Senator Lee Rhiannon: You have again repeated this supposed connection between company profits, the tax cuts and wage rises. We have heard evidence that there ...
Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi has notched up two entries in the Top 40, for cars and coal. This is the holding company for Mitsubishi’s coal investments in Australia.
A phalanx of forty lawyers will parade into a Sydney courtroom this morning to spar over the scraps of electronics retailer Dick Smith. The damage of a corporate collapse - the hit to creditors, ...
Automakers are well known for helping themselves to billions in Australian taxpayer subsidies then paying no tax in this country when they do make a profit. General Motors pays royalties to its ...
BHCA is a slick operation, aggressively tax-driven and suitably low-profile. Over three years, racking up almost $10 billion in total income, it managed not to leave one cent in tax payable, ...
Notwithstanding infidelity and the infamous boys' night out, the union of Dean and Tracey on Married at First Sight appears to be similarly functional to the marriage of the Big Four peak body, ...
Senator Kimberley Kitching: "So, they are the owners of your company. Have you met them?"
Exxon boss: "I have not met them".
Kitching: "You have not met the owners of the company which owns ...