Man cops five-year jail sentence for $13k tax refund
As Australians begin to collect receipts and lodge their tax returns, the Australian Taxation Office has issued a stern warning against anyone considering committing a tax crime on their refund this year.
“Those who deliberately cheat the system will be held to account,” the ATO stated.
The tax office revealed a series of crimes committed by Aussies at tax time, with penalties ranging from major fines to jail time.
Queensland man Joseph Kanowski earned himself five years behind bars after using stolen identities to get his hands on fraudulent tax refunds and social security payments, the ATO revealed
Article on Renewed Focus on Criminal Tax Enforcement
Readers of this blog might be interested in the following article by a prominent tax crimes practitioner: Scott Michel, INSIGHT: The IRS’s ...
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BORDER CLOSURE: Roughly 650 police will be stationed at the border crossings. They plan to slap any wrongdoers with an $11,000 fine. |
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BERNARD KEANE: Lack of judgment over an extended period reflects poorly on a department that, given its portfolio responsibilities, should surely be expected to manage core competencies well. |
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HAMILTON & KELLS: Kim Carr shares invaluable insights into the state of federal politics and the place of bipartisanship. |
Auditor-General should investigate council grants, says NSW Opposition
The NSW Auditor-General is facing Opposition calls to investigate the state government's handling of a council grants program that has been slammed as a Coalition pork barrelling fund.
Extradited E&Y Tax Shelter Enabler Sentenced
NBN Debacle. Wherefore art thou, minister?
What has been described as the country’s all-time biggest infrastructure debacle – the National Broadband Network – is a financial and technological mess.Continue reading
Cyber hacks, media hacks and political hacks.
Greatly increased defence spending plus proposed cyber capability tie us more to the USA and clearly will be seen by China as unfriendly. Can we rely on a dysfunctional USA and do we really understand Chinese motives and the level of threat from it?Continue reading
The social cost of cheap food. In Victorian England, rock-bottom prices meant poverty for food growers and sellers. So, too, in the rest of the world today...cheap food
Gaslighting – for those readers who don’t follow social media – means the manipulation of people by psychological means to undermine their stability and sanity. It first came into popular parlance in 2016 during the Brexit referendum and the election of Donald Trump, when both sides in those contests were accused by opponents of ‘Gaslighting’ gullible voters with lies, fake news, and cyber fraud; just as abusive males in relationships use the same technique to maintain control over their partners