Experts sound Gong on Chinese money-laundering in Australian property market
The recent bust of a Sydney-based money laundering syndicate and the story of a charming Chinese criminal brought down by New Zealand authorities highlight the need for Australia to catch up on global anti-money laundering regulations reports Callum Foote.
When Dylan Davies went to check his post last November, 580 brown envelopes fell to the floor.
Over the next six months he got tax bills for 11,000 Chinese companies after they fraudulently used his Cardiff address to register for VAT.
"It's been horrendous," said Mr Davies, who got letters from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) demanding tax amounting to £500,000.
HMRC admitted the situation did not raise alarm bells at the tax office.
"You'd think there'd be a systems with the technology today that would have picked it up immediately," Mr Davies said.
Cardiff flat owner gets tax bills for 11,000 Chinese firms
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The Active Management Delusion: Respect the Wisdom of the Crowd Enterprising Investor. But not, it seems, for capital investment. Honestly, could sortition be worse?
Putin is afraid of the internet. Afraid to use a cellphone. Is increasingly isolated for his decision to waste resources on his disastrous attempt to invade #Ukraine. Oh, and committed war crimes. So says a defecting member of Putin’s elite security team.
The headlines this week have assured readers that a financial meltdown is not imminent — while raising the alarming possibility that the opposite might be true. While wondering which headlines, exactly to trust, it is instructive to go back to the biggest meltdown of them all — the Great Crash of 1929 — and see how the papers handled it. Fortunately, we have this prime example for sale for $48 on eBay, a Chicago Tribune from Wednesday, October 23, 1929, which reassuringly told readers, “Stock Market Will Recover, ‘Doctors’ Think.”
It sounded great at the time. The very next day, October 24, would become known as “Black Thursday,” which saw the largest sell-off of shares in history and helped launch the Great Depression.
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