Story by Geordie Wilson and Michael West
AS the storm over social welfare rumbles on with Centrelink and its breathtaking debt recovery bungle, it is worth considering Australia's corporate ...
It is little wonder house prices shot up again last year: plus 15 per cent in Sydney and close to that in Melbourne.
Yes, interest rates are at record lows, that really helps. And yes, the ...
Treasurer Scott Morrison was at it again yesterday, chanting that frayed old mantra that corporate tax cuts "grow the economy" and deliver a "boost to business".
This article-of-faith, ...
This week the crack Assurance division at michaelwest.com.au conducted an audit of the 2016 Annual Report of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand. This service is being provided pro ...
When executives from BP Australia fronted the inquiry into corporate tax avoidance last year, they omitted to inform the senators presiding that their parent company had sucked out a $3.2 ...
Story by Michael West and Geordie Wilson
The numbers are staggering. The Big Four accounting firms have picked up at least $2.6 billion in fees from the Australian government over the ...
BHP Billiton - after its incredible feat of being challenged by Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca for compliance breaches in the British Virgin Islands - has turned up as a client of a another ...
Blithely disavowing the reality of an annual trillion-dollar global tax racket, and the fact they are right in the thick of it, accounting giant EY published a note to clients last year: “A New ...
The “Big Four” global accounting firms – PwC, Deloitte, KPMG and Ernst & Young - are the masterminds of multinational tax avoidance, the architects of tax schemes which cost governments and ...
The Senate's final report into corporate tax avoidance was due today. Instead, the committee presiding over one of the most successful parliamentary investigations of recent years, has handed ...
The first thing to note about today's data dump from the Australian Taxation Office is the agility and innovation of Australia's wealthiest private companies when it comes to paying tax. Or ...
You would have to have been ensconced in the jungles of Africa on I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here to have missed the corporate tax jihad this week.
Crestfallen at the failure of the ...