Posts tagged "tax avoidance"

The ATO collected more tax than it expected last year amid a crackdown on tax avoidance while moving to improve its engagement with small businesses.

Over 110,000 tax returns have been corrected by the ATO prior to tax refunds being issued.

The public disclosure of information that Australia’s largest companies give to the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) on their tax returns doesn’t sway investors’ decisions and doesn’t reduce corporate tax avoidance, our research shows.

ATO Commissioner Chris Jordan has accused tax agents of asking clients questions that "lead taxpayers to a deduction", as the one-year anniversary of last year's ATO outages approaches.

By Roman Lanis, University of Technology Sydney and Brett Govendir, University of Technology Sydney

The release of more than 13 million f…

By Ronen Palan, City, University of London

The so-called Paradise Papers may sound familiar — leaked documents from a law firm that sp…

Ensuring big global businesses pay their share of tax is a major priority for the federal government, but it appears its voluntary tax disc…

By Michael West, University of Sydney
“This is a huge market and no one knows how it all works except the mug operator who washes the line…

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson could stand in the way of the federal government’s “omnibus bill” of welfare reforms, claiming the cuts are…

There was a rush of activity in the final days of 2016 in policy areas that affect Australia’s small and medium businesses, with no short…

By Jackson Stiles

One in three large firms paid no company tax in the last financial year, the Australian Tax Office has revealed, prompt…

By John Mangan, The University of Queensland

One of the most common ways multinationals take advantage of current laws to reduce their t…