Original gaslighter: Cost of Cheap Food

Life is an Echo. What you send out - comes back. What you sow - you reap. What you give - you get. What you see in  others - exists in you. Your life is an Echo. It always get's back to you.

~ Zig Ziglar knew that even humans or aliens who don’t believe in Karma or any kind of “good will piggy bank” to which we deposit and gain interest, consider that the more people out there who treat others well improves your chance of being treated well also ;-)

HISTORICALLY IT IS A FAR MORE REVOLUTIONARY NOTION:  True Revolutionaries Believe in Freedom, Not Power.

IGTO releases Death and Taxes report - hard to classify all of the IGTO reports - trying to capture their collection as it comes in handy as footnote for briefs etc...

The Inspector-General of Taxation and Taxation Ombudsman (IGTO), Ms Karen Payne, today released the report of her investigation into ATO systems and processes for dealing with deceased estates - Death and Taxes: An Investigation Into Australian Taxation Office Systems And Processes For Dealing With Deceased Estates. Ms Payne highlighted the sensitivities in this particular area of Australia’s taxation system.

How a digital death certificate could help sort out estate and tax matters when you pass

Almost half (45 per cent) of Australians die without a will. And from the time someone dies, it usually takes about three years for loved ones to sort out their legal affairs.

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 ...

Service NSW worked overnight to deliver tech solution for border crossing permits

BORDER CLOSURE: Roughly 650 police will be stationed at the border crossings. They plan to slap any wrongdoers with an $11,000 fine.

Opinion: reports expose examples of still getting the basics wrong

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.

‘The Father of the Senate’: an interview with Kim Carr

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 

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I have often posted on the Government’s criminal prosecution of persons promoting abusive tax shelters.   There were a number of prosecution...

NBN Debacle. Wherefore art thou, minister?

By LAURIE PATTON | On 2 July 2020

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 →

There’s a War Going On Over Kamala Harris’s Wikipedia Page, with Unflattering Elements Vanishing.

The Inspector-General of Taxation and Taxation Ombudsman (IGTO), Ms Karen Payne, today released the report of her investigation into ATO systems and processes for dealing with deceased estates - Death and Taxes: An Investigation Into Australian Taxation Office Systems And Processes For Dealing With Deceased Estates. Ms Payne highlighted the sensitivities in this particular area of Australia’s taxation system.

Cyber hacks, media hacks and political hacks.

By CAVAN HOGUE | On 2 July 2020

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

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Pete Recommends Weekly Highlights on Cybersecurity Issues July 5, 2020 – Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and security, often without our situational awareness. Four highlights from this week: Industry Calls on Government to Invest Billions for Developing Secure 5G Networks; Enterprise IT concerns – quarantined workers breaking company policy could expose enterprise systems and data; What is a credit bureau?; and Key questions about enforcement of California’s privacy law.