Federal Budget 2018: All the winners ... and losers
Budget 2018: Winners and losers - Our ABC
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If
these tax cuts were fully implemented in 2024-25 then someone on $40,000 gets
$455 a year. Someone on $200,000 a year gets $7,225 a year. Those on $200k
earn 5 times those on 40k but get 16 times more in tax cuts. #Budget2018
#Fair?
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Craft brewers will have their smaller kegs taxed at the same rate as larger competitors'.
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Federal budget 2018: ATO paints a target on international celebrities
Budget 2018: Dodgy taxpayers to be hit in $2 billion probe
The Australian Independent Media Network — Monday, May 7, 2018 - 18:53 — Source
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ATO expands probe into oilfield services giant Schlumberger
A BEEFED-up taskforce of federal cops and tax investigators will conduct raids on businesses suspected of using cash in a crackdown that has already netted $203 million cash and prosecuted five people.
Federal Budget 2018: Police will chase $5.3b black market
Federal budget 2018: Personal tax crackdown to raise $1.1b
A smarter, more productive public sector
Earlier pain — think efficiency dividend, staffing caps, machinery of government changes, the amusingly-named Operation Tetris, and bumpy experiments in technology — is starting to pay off.
Digital government gets $600 million
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Top-ups for some, few ‘efficiencies’ left to find
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The budget numbers: tax cuts & spending
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Home Affairs review and security clearance boost
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Improved care choices as Australians living longer
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Genomics gets a $500 million boost
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UK Ministry of Justice knocks down towers, brings ITBACK in-house
Waves SIAM-nara to Leidos
Exclusive The Ministry of Justice is abandoning its experiment of breaking up big IT contracts into a so-called "tower model" and will instead bring tech management back in-house, The Register can reveal.In 2013, the UK government department awarded Lockheed Martin a £125m Service Integration and Management (SIAM) contract to integrate its fragmented IT supplier contracts. Lockheed then sold its IT division to Leidos for $4.6bn (£3.4bn) in 2016.
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146 million people, 99 million addresses, 209,000
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