The Albanese government has kicked off the multinational tax reforms it promised during the federal election.
Labor pledged to support the OECD's "two pillar" approach to crack down on multinational tax avoidance, which includes a 15 per cent floor rate for corporate tax globally to help eliminate tax havens.
The Albanese government has kicked off the multinational tax reforms it promised during the federal election.
Labor pledged to support the OECD's "two pillar" approach to crack down on multinational tax avoidance, which includes a 15 per cent floor rate for corporate tax globally to help eliminate tax havens.
Multinational tax reform gets under way
Several tax chiefs shared their administrations’ latest digital identity tracking systems and other tax technologies at the OECD’s annual meeting of authorities.
OECD’s annual FTA meeting highlights tax technology upgrades
Almost two years after a break-in at a suburban tax agent in Sydney’s north-west, victims whose identities were compromised remain powerless to stop ongoing attempts at fraudulent tax returns in what experts warn shows the long-reaching consequences of data theft.
When Income Tax Professionals at Baulkham Hills was broken into over Christmas 2020, thieves took a number of paper files and one of the firm’s computers.
Two years after personal data was stolen the old-fashioned way, the fraud continues
Despite ‘desert tsunami,’ one of the world’s rarest fish are thriving in Death Valley Fort Worth Star-Telegram.\. And the cotton are high
When Income Tax Professionals at Baulkham Hills was broken into over Christmas 2020, thieves took a number of paper files and one of the firm’s computers.
Two years after personal data was stolen the old-fashioned way, the fraud continues
Trouble at the OECD Inside Story
Addiction Instead of Taxation
Increasing duties on tobacco is least effective amongst the least advantaged segments of the community at decreasing smoking. Over time, the effect of approaches such as this is to push an increasingly larger share of the burden for government revenue onto a smaller, and more disadvantaged and addicted section of the population.
BlackRock threatened to halt trading at height of UK market tumult FT
The Blackstone rebellion: how one country took on the world’s biggest commercial landlord Guardian
“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”
The Queen is dead, the big questions aren’t
Will the Queen’s death prompt meaningful debate about Australia’s colonial past and its republican future? I fear not. Too often we do the talk much better than the walk.
Vice: “Nobody really likes being tracked around the web, but rejecting cookies in a pop-up window every time you’re presented with the option can be exhausting.
Now, there’s a tool that will do it for you automatically, and it’s called Consent-O-Matic. Despite it being four years since Europe’s GDPR data protection and privacy law was passed, along with the creation of consent management platforms (CMPs) meant to ensure compliance with GDPR, many sites still outright violate regulations and deceptively track internet activity. In April, researchers at Aarhus University released Consent-O-Matic to automatically reject permission requests to track you…”
Vice Open-Source ‘Consent-O-Matic’ Tool Lets Anyone Automatically Stop Websites From Tracking Them
More ambitious people are seen as less warm and likeable
New Chicago finance panel polled on issues of economics and finance
“Non-profit” hospitals are not very nice to the poor (NYT).
Dan Ariely WSJ column ending (WSJ)
Demographic impact of Russian mobilization
The wisdom of Scott Sumner (on feminism, and Putin)
Here’s a list of the world’s top ten airlines:
- Qatar Airways
- Singapore Airlines
- Emirates
- ANA (All Nippon Airways)
- Qantas Airways
- Japan Airlines
- Turkish Airlines
- Air France
- Korean Air
- Swiss International Air Lines
The airlines in this list have at least two things in common: None of world’s best airlines are US owned and none of them are allowed to operate domestically in the United States. The two common elements are related because so-called “cabotage laws” prohibit foreign airlines from serving domestic travelers.
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