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Who's afraid of the Google Tax? Not you know who
Dodgy email distributed to tens of thousands of addresses just as people arrived at work this morning
Aussie business owners targeted in fake ASIC renewal notice
See also: Multinationals depriving New Zealand of millions in tax - Revenue Minister Collins RNZ
KPMG offshore tax dodge a 'facade' designed to hide money, ex-client says CBC News
See also: Wealthy Canadians exposed in KPMG offshore tax 'sham' CBC News
Swiss financial sector ‘vulnerable’ to crime swissinfo
President Trump has a rocky history with the Internal Revenue Service, which he has complained audits him with unfair ferocity. Now he wants to significantly cut the tax agency’s funding at a time when it has already been bleeding staff and struggling to keep up with a flood of returns ahead of Tax Day.
The plans, revealed this week in documents associated with the White House budget outline, put Mr. Trump at odds with his Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, who has argued that the I.R.S. needs more money and a larger staff.
Federal agents raided three Caterpillar buildings near its Illinois headquarters on Thursday, company and law enforcement officials said, in an escalation of an inquiry into the heavy equipment manufacturer’s offshore tax practices.
Caterpillar has been dogged by accusations that it slashed its domestic tax bill by shifting corporate profits from the United States to a subsidiary in Switzerland. A 2014 congressional investigation concluded that a scheme to move cash between the company’s American and foreign subsidiaries cut its tax bill in the United States by $2.4 billion over 13 years.
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Tall Towers of money
So you have a couple of million
dollars sitting in the bank account of a British Virgin Islands company. What
are you going to do with it?
These are just some of the
real-life issues facing the super wealthy every day.
The answer for many of them has
been to buy high value London property.
This trade has led to huge
distortions in the London property market, with developers building buildings
which are designed to meet the offshore property market.
The issue has become increasingly
controversial as young Londoners struggle to buy a home, priced out of their
city by mysterious offshore cash.
This week, Transparency International has released a report
which seeks to provide some hard data to this debate. The report, called Faulty
Towers looks at how much money from offshore has flowed into high value
property development in London. Amongst other things it finds that areas with
high levels of offshore ownership have lower electricity consumption, which
suggests homes being kept empty. The report also identifies £4.2bn in property
bought with suspicious wealth.
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NSW’s privacy watchdog is on a mission to patch gaps in the state’s data protection laws that haven’t caught up with an accelerating trend towards government outsourcing. Privacy commissioner Elizabeth Coombs says as more state government duties are placed in private hands, her ability follow up on complaints if and when privacy rules are breached becomes challenged Breaches
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Trusting the Process Kleptocracy Initiative
KleptoCast interview with TJN's Andres Knobel about how trusts became the next frontier in dodging taxes and shielding assets
Stop politicking. Canberra public servant chief John Lloyd decries the polticisation of the Victorian and Queensland public service, saying it would never happen in the Commonwealth.
The Data-Driven Transformation of Intelligence
(1) Here's what it's like to live in a "non-truth" country. (2) More on the collaborative French fact-checking project CrossCheck. (3) Fake news vs. primary school kids. (4) Live fact-checking in Argentina. (5) Here's where to get legal help in obtaining documents from stubborn sources. (6) Andrew Puzder blames "a tsunami of fake news" for his failed nomination as U.S. labor secretary. (7) Wired explains how the term "fake news" became meaningless. (8) A writer says his fake tweets were "satire" but the Twitterverse disagreed, angrily. (9) How misinformation affects the stock market and your retirement. (10) Have you registered for Global Fact 4 in Madrid? (11) A structured overview of how ad money fuels fake news.