Recently I had the pleasure of overseeingmy first operational activity as Australian Chief of the Joint Chiefs of Global Tax Enforcement (J5). As part of Operation Flutter, the ATO participated in globally coordinated action in relation to businesses suspected of using electronic sales suppression tools (ESST).
Working with our partners at the HMRC and IRS, the action included a series of raids and access without notice visits on a number of businesses across Australia. These businesses are suspected of facilitating money laundering and tax evasion by using ESST on their Point-of-Sale (POS) system.
John Ford: Global action sees J5 come together to target tax evaders
APS census results for all agencies on most and least recommended agencies
Social media accountant of the year for the fourth year running
For the last few years the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales has given an annual award which it has called ICAEW ROAR.
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The tax office stonewalled questions from the media despite being aware the annual pay data it provided to the Department of Human Services for the robodebt program was “not fit for purpose”, a royal commission has heard.
Separately, on Monday, two Australian Taxation Office officials, Tyson Fawcett and Michael Kerr-Brown, told a royal commission they had concerns about the way the PAYG data was being used by the department once the robodebt scheme hit the headlines in late 2016.
Tax officials who raised concerns about robodebt were ‘fobbed off’, inquiry hears
Addressing Climate Change Will Not “Save the Planet” The Intercept
Fossil fuel industry dupes media, quietly funds non-profits to block renewable energy Popular Information
The Return of the Dialectics of Nature: The Struggle for Freedom as Necessity Monthly
THEY FEAR HUMOR EVERY BIT AS MUCH AS SOVIET APPARATCHIKS DID: Twitter’s former head of Trust & Safety claims Babylon Bee, Libs of TikTok make ‘people unsafe in the world.’
ELON MUSK AND MATT TAIBBI HAVE THE PERFECT RESPONSE TO LIBERAL MEDIA’S FURY WITH THE TRUTH. Taibbi “said he was ‘looking forward’ to going through all the ‘PR for the richest man on earth’ tweets, ‘and seeing how many of them have run stories for anonymous sources at the FBI, CIA, the Pentagon, and White House.’”
Why did so many German doctors join the Nazi Party early? International Journal of Law and Society. From 2012, still germane. From the Abstract: “Few have tried to explain the self-selected Nazi enrollment of such an overwhelming proportion of the German Medical Society in the first place. This article lends insight into this paradox by exploring some major vulnerabilities, motives, and rationalizations that may have predisposed German physicians to Nazi membership-professional vulnerabilities among physicians in general (valuing conformity and obedience to authority, valuing the prevention of contamination and fighting against mortality, and possessing a basic interest in biomedical knowledge and research), economic factors and motives (related to physician economic insecurity and incentives for economic advancement), and Nazi ideological and historical rationalizations (beliefs about Social Darwinism, eugenics, and the social organism as sacred).” Speaking of eugenics:
In school, we learned that socialism is evil because it has no respect for the sanctity of human life… pic.twitter.com/otIszsiOz6
— Alan MacLeod (@AlanRMacLeod) December 3, 2022
Twitter is Fun Again! Matt Bivens. The deck: “Now, let’s have the rest: Everything in the files about how national security agencies manipulate what we get to see and hear.” A useful timeline with good detail.
The Twitter Files, Explained Gizmodo
Censorship by surrogate: Why Musk’s document dump could be a game changer Jonathan Turley, The Hill
How Web Platforms Collapse: The Facebook Case Study Ted Gioia, The Honest Broker. A brutal and entertaining stomping of Facebook.
The College Essay Is Dead Atlantic
Yes, the Players in the World Cup Do Keep Falling Over for No Reason New York Times
Major League Baseball used two balls again this year, and evidence points to a third Insider
Gut microbiome-wide association study of depressive symptoms Nature
