The pressure is on tax practitioners to stay abreast of the rapid shifts and changes to Australia’s legal and regulatory landscape, as the Australian Government continues its tax reform efforts,” Mr Mills said. “The Tax Institute is the premier tax body that will amplify the voice of tax professionals, recommend improvements to the tax system, and lead the charge to help the tax community navigate through these difficult times.”
“The Tax Institute appoints former ATO Second Commissioner Andrew Mills as Director, Tax Policy and Technical” (Mark Konza might be joining Mr Mills)
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The general point is that minimizing the number of COVID-19 deaths today or a month from now or six months from now may or may notminimize the human costs of the pandemic when the full spectrum of human consequences is considered. The last global depression created conditions for a catastrophic world war that killed roughly 75 to 80 million people. Is that a possibility? The downside risks and costs of every approach are real, frightening, and depressing, no matter how little one thinks of reopening now.
One of the creepiest and most dystopian things I’ve seen since the pandemic began: a terrifying camera-equipped remote-controlled robot patrols Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park in Singapore to — for now — warn about social distancing. Look at the fear. Story: https://t.co/12QfT1mcyZpic.twitter.com/hBGUhmC7N7— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) May 8, 2020
What Do Platforms Do? Understanding the Gig Economy (PDF) Annual Review of Sociology. “Platforms represent a distinct type of governance mechanism, different from markets, hierarchies, or networks, and therefore pose a unique set of problems for regulators, workers, and their competitors in the conventional economy. Reflecting the instability of the platform structure, struggles over regulatory regimes are dynamic and difficult to predict, but they are sure to gain in prominence as the platform economy grows.”
In The New York Times Motoko Rich finds: 'Mieko Kawakami, whose novel Breasts and Eggs was just published in English, has become something of a feminist icon in her male-dominated country' in her profile, A Novelist Breaks the Code of Being a Woman in Japan.
@Bookshop_Org will hit $1,000,000 earned for local bookstores sometime in the wee hours of tomorrow morning. (I hope I’m not awake for it.) pic.twitter.com/uTW8cqcn1X – Andy Hunter (@AndyHunter777) April 27, 2020