Think of ourselves as older people in training: “The following is an excerpt adapted from Breaking the Code: How your beliefs about aging determine how long and well you live by Becca Levy. Although age beliefs are assimilated and reinforced over our lifetimes, they are also malleable:
I have changed them in the lab, they can shift across history, and they can vary dramatically from one culture to another. To shift from an age-declining mindset to an age-thriving one, I used scientific findings and observations to develop the ABC method….”
Pete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 16, 2022 – Privacy and cybersecurity 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 online security, often without our situational awareness.
Four highlights from this week: Data From Friends and Strangers Show Where You Are; TSA’s Terrorist Watch List Comes for Amtrak Passengers; Facial recognition not required as tax ID – yet. But the tech spreads; You’re muted… or are you? Videoconferencing apps may listen even when mic is off; and Mismanaged Cloud Services Put User Data at Risk.
Accenture will now be paid more than $170 million over four years to assist the ATO on the project.
Accenture lands $60m modernising business registers contract
‘Don’t ignore us, even if you’re doing it tough’, says ATO
The Tax Office is back on the debt collection trail and urging businesses to engage.The Federal Court has held that the ATO engaged in “oppressive” conduct by seeking to simultaneously enforce alternative assessments in a reminder that regulator enforcement conduct is open to challenge in certain circumstances.
"Pay now, fight later" is a key tenet of tax disputes. Once the ATO raises tax assessments, the route to challenge them is often a lengthy, technical appeal with a heavy onus of proof on the taxpayer. This makes it very difficult to contest a tax assessment for errors in procedure or ATO conduct, and places the Commissioner in a powerful position to enforce taxation liabilities.
Hyder v Commissioner of Taxation [2022] FCA 264 is a reminder that there are other means to challenge regulator conduct.
When can we challenge ATO conduct? Court finds Tax Office's actions "oppressive"
Following up on yesterday's post, Do The ‘U.S. News’ Rankings Rely On Dubious Data?: Chronicle of Higher Education, Rutgers B-School Faked Jobs for Graduates to Inflate Its Rankings, Lawsuit Says:
Rutgers University’s Business School inflated its rankings by creating fake jobs for its graduates, according to an accusation leveled in a whistle-blower lawsuit filed on Friday.
The fight against tax havens was worth it
Back in 2o12 I leaked to the International Tax Review that the UK was finally going to crack down on the absence of tax transparency
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PEOPLE PUSHING CRYPTO NEED TO RECOGNIZE THAT GOVERNMENTS WILL PUSH BACK: Former Ethereum Developer Virgil Griffith Sentenced to 5+ Years in Prison for North Korea Trip.