Scammers have exploited a simple weakness in the myGov online portal to redirect hundreds of millions of dollars in tax refunds.
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Up to one in five Australian adults owns cryptocurrency. A tax expert (and crypto owner) explains what you need to know about claiming losses on your tax return, and a possible discount on your gains.
Purporting to distribute money to children to take advantage of their tax-free thresholds sends
a message about how important it is to be truthful when complying with the tax law.
Rather than ending the race to bottom from international profit shifting, the Australian government’s proposed 15% tax rate is likely to entrench it. Here’s why.
Compared with other OECD nations, Australians pay much less tax than some headline statistics suggest.
Tax advisers are more likely to act as “tax exploiters” for wealthy clients but “tax enforcers” for the rest of us.
New tax office figures show only 2% of Australians earn more than $211,000 a year.
Australia’s tax relief rules are outdated. Here are three key points for reform.
The combination of community activism, journalistic investigation, political scrutiny and the legal aid system has ultimately provided a remedy to the victims.
Fraudsters have managed to exploit security gaps in the federal government’s early release of super scheme. Here’s what to look out for.
We are failing to collect and giving away in tax concessions hundreds of billions.
The High Court of Australia has given the Australia Taxation Office a green light to use leaked information about Glencore and offshore tax havens.
The budget looks good, for now. But the surge in taxable profits will subside as companies find ways to shift profits offshore. We’ve come up a better way to tax onshore what happens onshore.
Scrapping cash refunds on dividends could make the tax system fairer. But super funds could invest less in Australian companies.
On Q&A, Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry chief executive James Pearson said almost 60% of small business owners in Australia are paid $50,000 or less. Is that right?
Workers are getting ABNs and being employed as contractors responsible for their own tax payments. This is undercutting conditions and eroding the most important part of the nation’s tax base.
In a speech to the National Press Club in Canberra, ACTU Secretary Sally McManus said 679 of Australia’s biggest corporations pay “not one cent of tax”. Is that right?
Australia’s labour market does a relatively good job of accommodating the preferences of the majority of workers. But that’s not to say there’s no-one who wouldn’t prefer to work more – or less.
The volatile political debate between the two major parties about the long-term vision for tax has left small businesses in the lurch.
Katter’s Australian Party federal MP Bob Katter said 30% of the Northern Territory’s farmland and 22% of Tasmania’s farmland is foreign-owned. Is that true?
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Professor and Founding Director of UNSW Tax and Business Advisory Clinic, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer, Curtin Law School, Curtin University
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Lecturer in Taxation Law for accountants, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Research Fellow, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Professor of Taxation, QUT Business School, and ARC Future Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Research Director, The University of Western Australia
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Lecturer, School of Taxation ＆ Business Law, UNSW