ATO staff 'voluntold' to meet call surge as taxpayers chase bonus
The Canberra Times
Sydney security firm an alleged 'front' for $100m organised crime syndicate
- Police raided a Sydney security company allegedly linked to a crime syndicate
- Four people were arrested and $400,000 and a car were seized by the police
- Police allege the security company laundered money for a criminal syndicate
- They allege it is linked to a raid in early 2019 where drugs and cars were seized
NEWS YOU CAN USE: How to Tell If Someone Is Bugging or Tracking You.I’m so old that I can remember when the impedance change produced by a parallel connection — literally, a “tap” — on your phone line gave it a characteristic hollow sound.
Movember ends with Australian Tax Office staff getting half a mo to honour men who .
Proving the Australian Tax Office does have a heart, its staff have ... Thursday were Australian Tax Office workers Adam Shain
Maximum Ditital Improvements
Hel V Adam Shain
GPS to Track Student Attendance
Three arrested in connection with alleged money laundering syndicate worth $80m
Toxic leaders and how to get over them once they’re gone
The Mandarin, 2 July 2019. When does an organisation have a duty of care to take action to support its people affected by toxic leadership?
Whistleblower strikes deal over handling of sensitive information in court
A couple gets killed and then the killer gets murdered – so, whodunit?
“The decline in liquor tax revenue caused by the anti-alcohol campaign [in the USSR] was of the same magnitude as the decline in oil export revenue.”
Three arrested in connection with alleged money laundering syndicate worth $80m
Toxic leaders and how to get over them once they’re gone
The Mandarin, 2 July 2019. When does an organisation have a duty of care to take action to support its people affected by toxic leadership?
Whistleblower strikes deal over handling of sensitive information in court
A couple gets killed and then the killer gets murdered – so, whodunit?
And You Think You Have A Bad Job – The Life Of Moderating Online Content
“The policies that were in place almost parodied themselves. They were so specific on the one hand and totally missing the forest for the trees on the other that you really had to embed yourself into the logic of the particular platform, and of course every platform has its own set of policies that it makes up.” – The New Yorker
- Care home operators 'beg for taxpayer cash despite being run by offshore companies controlled from Jersey (10 Jul 2019)
- How Multinationals Pad Their Budgets With the Wealth of Developing Countries (10 Jul 2019)
- Transfer (mis)pricing, the jewel in every multinational enterprise's crown (10 Jul 2019)
- US
to probe French plan for tax on tech companies
(10 Jul 2019)
- Blame the Treasury for the doctors' tax trap (10 Jul 2019)
- Freeports favoured by Boris Johnson could be used to dodge tax (10 Jul 2019)
- Trump loans and money laundering: Deutsche Bank's fall from grace (10 Jul 2019)
- British
billionaire Dyson snaps up Singapore's priciest penthouse
(10 Jul 2019)
- Barcelona defender Gerard Pique told to pay £1.89m in tax arrears (10 Jul 2019)
- Tax
concerns push high net worth Indians to look offshore
(10 Jul 2019)
- France to impose green tax on departing flights (10 Jul 2019)
- Air
France says planned French eco-tax
would be 'extremely penalizing' (10 Jul 2019)
- Cancer, obesity and Boris Johnson's 'sin tax' error (10 Jul 2019)
- Fears
UK law change could prevent scrutiny of money launderers
(10 Jul 2019)
- Regulator
scrutinises charities in £10m money laundering scam
(10 Jul 2019)
- State-aid:
EU Commission opens in-depth investigation into tax treatment of Nike
in the Netherlands (8 Jul 2019)
- Nike's
Sweetheart Dutch Tax Deal Ignored 'Economic Reality,' EU
(8 Jul 2019)
- UK House of Commons Library Research Paper: The Crown Dependencies (8 Jul 2019)
“The decline in liquor tax revenue caused by the anti-alcohol campaign [in the USSR] was of the same magnitude as the decline in oil export revenue.”
Data Analytics and Tax Law by Benjamin Alarie, Anthony Niblett .
University of Toronto, June 2019. This paper seeks to illustrate some key examples of how analytics can be employed in the field of tax law. This essay provides both insights on how to improve the administration and content of tax law and policy, and insights for taxpayers seeking to understand the content of tax law.
17-Year-Old
Weakness in Firefox Let HTML File
Steal Other Files From Device
the hackernews, 3 July 2019. Though the implementation weakness in Firefox has already been discussed on the Internet over and over again in previous years, this is the first time when someone has come up with a complete PoC attack that puts security and privacy of millions of Firefox users at risk.
Axios: “A malfunctioning dog leash could end up creating billions of dollars of potential liabilities for online marketplaces, with Amazon front and center. Background: A dog leash sold and shipped by The Furry Gang, one of the millions of small sellers that operate on Amazon’s marketplace, snapped, permanently blinding the buyer in her left eye.
McKinsey, July 2019. This interview a with a ‘happiness researcher’ shares some surprising results on connecting well-being, mental health, and how employers can play a role in improving employee lives at work.
MURRAY-DARLING: The gulf between the
alternate realities of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan grows wider.
the hackernews, 3 July 2019. Though the implementation weakness in Firefox has already been discussed on the Internet over and over again in previous years, this is the first time when someone has come up with a complete PoC attack that puts security and privacy of millions of Firefox users at risk.
Axios: “A malfunctioning dog leash could end up creating billions of dollars of potential liabilities for online marketplaces, with Amazon front and center. Background: A dog leash sold and shipped by The Furry Gang, one of the millions of small sellers that operate on Amazon’s marketplace, snapped, permanently blinding the buyer in her left eye.
- Amazon is responsible for the injury, according to a 2-1 decision from Philadelphia’s Third Circuit Court of Appeals.
- “Amazon’s involvement in transactions extends beyond a mere editorial function; it plays a large role in the actual sales process,” the opinion states.
- Our thought bubble: This ruling challenges the company’s longtime practice of effectively outsourcing quality control to its customers and their reviews. Amazon could now be held liable for all the random things that get sold on its site.
- What to watch: This isn’t just bad news for Amazon. The whole e-commerce sector — including companies like Walmart, eBay and Shopify — could come under fire.”
Programme: Introducing the Theme (0:00-24:28 – slides)
- Short overview of findings from the OCLC Open Content Survey—Titia van der Werf, OCLC Research
- IIIF and OCLC product development—Shane Huddlestone, OCLC Digital Collections Services (24:34-50:11 – slides)
- The state of IIIF at Europeana—Antoine Isaac, Europeana (50:30-1:13:30 – slides)
- The Global Digitised Dataset Network—Paul Gooding, University of Glasgow (1:13:54-1:45:33 – slides)
- Building corpora of open content in Philosophy: findings from the CatViS project—Rob Koopman (Architect, OCLC Global Engineering)
- Interacting with open collections: Ariadne, BolVis and KantVis—Shenghui Wang (Research Scientist, OCLC Research), Thom Castermans (PhD student at Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of TU Eindhoven), Annapaola Ginammi (Researcher at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam)…”
McKinsey, July 2019. This interview a with a ‘happiness researcher’ shares some surprising results on connecting well-being, mental health, and how employers can play a role in improving employee lives at work.
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