by Michael West | Jul 4, 2017 | Finance & Tax, Government
Statement by Michael West to the the Senate Economics Reference Committee inquiry into Corporate Tax Avoidance. It was at the last sitting day of parliament in 2015, and a few months after this Committee first convened, when two amendments were passed in the...
by Michael West | Feb 28, 2017 | Finance & Tax, Government
Nowhere is the impotence of politicians and regulators more costly than in their failure to stand up to multinational corporations dodging tax. The poachers are not merely in charge of the game park, they are running amok. The Tax Office now publishes an annual list...
by Michael West | Feb 26, 2017 | Finance & Tax, Government
As the government takes the long-handle to penalty rates, family benefits and climate-change funding – while dangling a $50 billion package of tax cuts in the direction of its big business party donors – it is worth bearing in mind that a third of...
by Michael West | Jan 24, 2017 | Finance & Tax, Government
So intrigued were we at what the judge described as the “implosion” of the expert witness for the Australian Securities & Investments Commission that we embarked upon an intrepid quest to find the man. Who is Hugh Woolley? Where’s Woolley? ASIC...
by Michael West | Jan 3, 2017 | Business, Finance & Tax, Government
Just two days out from Christmas, our corporate regulator had its OJ Simpson moment, losing what seemed to be the unloseable court case, the prosecution of Gold Coast funds impresario Peter Drake. Now we know that one can help oneself to a $16 million loan from one of...