by Michael West | May 20, 2017 | Finance & Tax, Government
COMMENT Loath as one is to invoke the utterances of Donald Trump, this “shocking”, “massive” and “disgusting” Plutus scandal which has “engulfed” the Australian Tax Office is, wait for it … #FakeNews. It is a good...
by Michael West | May 13, 2017 | Energy & Environment, Finance & Tax
American Express has paid no net tax in Australia for nine years, according to its latest financial statements. That is zero tax on $10 billion in revenue. Well might this story end there. Enough has already been said. But Amex is by no means alone. Multinational...
by Michael West | Apr 27, 2017 | Energy & Environment, Government
For the government to intervene in the gas market – in the face of bitter resistance from one of the most powerful lobbies in the land – shows just how dire things have become. Spiralling gas prices are sending businesses to the wall, right now. Others...
by Michael West | Apr 24, 2017 | Energy & Environment, Finance & Tax
It was a superb win for the the Australian Tax Office against Chevron in the Federal Court last week but there is something everyone is missing, something which will turn the art of tax avoidance on its head; a game-changer for multinationals. Put simply, Chevron...
by Michael West | Apr 23, 2017 | Energy & Environment, Finance & Tax
Chevron’s top brass touched down in Australia last September in a fleet of five private jets, here to visit their gargantuan Gorgon and Wheatstone gas projects in Western Australia. The Tax Office might have slapped them with a Departure Prevention Order (DPO)...