Healthscope’s volatile history of ownership by vulture funds TPG Capital and The Carlyle Group and its vigorous buying and selling of medical businesses in Australia and overseas have thrown up ...
Mining and engineering services group UGL was swallowed by construction giant CIMIC in a takeover last year after managing to wipe out its entire taxable income for three years straight.
Investors always hear a different story to the Tax Office. CSR’s investors have been hearing about four years of solid profit growth, low interest rates, and rising demand for building ...
Political donations work. Four of the world's most powerful institutions and largest political party donors have once again treated the people and the parliament of Australia with disdain.
PwC, ...
The Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) delivered a masterclass in spin and corporate lobbying this week. It’s worth going through it in detail to see how industry groups are able to push their ...
Still barely a squeak from the Big Four accounting firms about the world's biggest tax leak, the 13.4 million documents from the Paradise Papers.
In a perusal of the websites of Deloitte, ...
Christian Porter might be busy crunching pensioners but the Minister for Social Services is expanding the government's welfare services in other areas, increasing the corporate welfare budget ...
“It’s just madness and lazy politics to allow a cereal company to fund a health study and promote it as government advice” ... "This means that the main evidence relied upon for the Australian ...
In negotiations last night, the Greens struck a deal with the National Party to include the Big Four global accounting firms in Royal Commission along with the banks. Now the government has ...
The Paradise Papers story broke on November 5. Despite the biggest document leak in history, the global media has managed to miss the story.
PwC, EY, Deloitte, KPMG and the mainstream law firms ...
The elephant in the room remains dead still. It is standing in the middle of the room, dwarfing all other things around it but yet it remains ignored as the crowd points and gawks at all the ...
The Paradise Papers continue to dominate news in the offshore world, and have generated a mixed set of reactions, writes the Tax Justice Network in its Weekly Wrap. An edited version ...