If my memory serves me well back in the 1990s Nick named the NSW LA newsletter "Assembly Lines"
Exclusive with Nick Tabakoff (Tabak means Tobacco) in Slavic Language) : ATO's Chris Jordan: tough cop on the tax beat
$5bn tax crackdown targets multinational technology giants
ATO to wage war on bikies
NICK TABAKOFF
Chris Jordan on why the ATO is ‘designing for the majority’.
"In Australia, there are many regulators (including the ATO historically), and government agencies that focus more on the people who do the wrong thing. They administer systems for the very last worst person – which imposes unnecessary burdens on those who want to do the right thing."
ATO flags crackdown on small business tax gaps
The area-by-area blitz — which includes Sydney's Cabramatta and Chinatown, Melbourne's Glen Waverley, Brisbane's Sunnybank, Adelaide's Glenelg and Perth's CBD — was initiated at the behest of Tax Commissioner Chris Jordan. During his interview series with The Australian, Mr Jordan has revealed ... Taxman targets specific suburbs in cash-only business blitz
The area-by-area blitz — which includes Sydney's Cabramatta and Chinatown, Melbourne's Glen Waverley, Brisbane's Sunnybank, Adelaide's Glenelg and Perth's CBD — was initiated at the behest of Tax Commissioner Chris Jordan. During his interview series with The Australian, Mr Jordan has revealed ... Taxman targets specific suburbs in cash-only business blitz
Tax Commissioner Chris Jordan is spearheading an international probe into last month’s 13.5-million-document Paradise Papers data leak, as he also revealed a $50 million windfall from the earlier Panama Papers.
In his first interview on the Australian Taxation Office’s response to the Paradise Papers, Mr Jordan said he would focus on professional services firms — including accountants, lawyers and tax specialists — as the initial targets of his investigations, for potential breaches they committed on behalf of high-flying clients. Tax chief Chris Jordan leads global response to Paradise Papers leak
'Be
unreasonable': making change happen in a bureaucracy.
Get your Machiavelli on with tips and tricks for demonstrating results from a city reform strategist: "If people aren’t complaining, they’re not changing."
Get your Machiavelli on with tips and tricks for demonstrating results from a city reform strategist: "If people aren’t complaining, they’re not changing."
The MEdia Dragon Politico, The IRS Is Building a Safe to Hold Trump’s Tax Returns:
This
week, the 78-year-old Koskinen began his third retirement. And he says
the IRS is still a distressed organization. “When Eisenhower left
office, his message was: Beware the military-industrial complex,”
Koskinen said. “My message is: Beware the collapse of the IRS.”
(Saint Mikulas aka Nicholas Day - My Czech Republic)
Attracting
and retaining the right talent
McKinsey, November 2017. The best workers do the best and the most work. But
many companies do an awful job of finding and keeping them.
UK Care homes
forced to declare links to offshore tax havens
(27 Nov 2017)
Google Tax: Labour
accuses Chancellor of failing to 'get a grip' on tax avoidance by
letting major firms keep £700m
(27 Nov 2017)
Blow to tobacco
control treaty as industry wins tax fight in south-east Asia
(27 Nov 2017)
Guernsey finance
chief claims release of Paradise Papers was ploy to influence first
ever tax haven blacklist
(27 Nov 2017)
Melbourne
courier businesses fined $72,000 for sham contracting: Airtasker’s Tim Fung
says more scrutiny coming on gig economy workers
A recent court action brought by the Fair Work Ombudsman against a courier business has prompted warnings from both start-up founders and legal experts that further crackdowns could be incoming for companies in the “gig economy”.
“It seems some confusion also flowed from the use of an internet tool on the Australian Taxation Office website which appears to have been an automated tool that produced an assessment that [the worker] was a contractor rather than an employee,” Judge Riethmuller said.
See: Fair Work Ombudsman v Z Transport Group Pty Ltd & Ors [2017] FCCA 2660 (31 October 2017)
A recent court action brought by the Fair Work Ombudsman against a courier business has prompted warnings from both start-up founders and legal experts that further crackdowns could be incoming for companies in the “gig economy”.
“It seems some confusion also flowed from the use of an internet tool on the Australian Taxation Office website which appears to have been an automated tool that produced an assessment that [the worker] was a contractor rather than an employee,” Judge Riethmuller said.
See: Fair Work Ombudsman v Z Transport Group Pty Ltd & Ors [2017] FCCA 2660 (31 October 2017)
