Thursday, September 05, 2024

Austria’s ‘Beer Party’ started as a joke. Now it could determine an election.

Administrative Procedures As Tax Enforcement Tools



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Alarmingly, the email explains that Revenue NSW has collaborated with the Australian Taxation Office to obtain information on the entity receiving the email – presumably directly from the entity’s income tax returns to the ATO – which has led Revenue NSW to determine the entity needs to register for payroll tax.

This is believed to be the first time that a state revenue office has written to medical or services businesses and admitted that they are now data matching directly with the ATO in order to identify businesses they think owe payroll tax.

Revenue NSW goes on ATO-inspired ‘phishing’ expedition




A beer-themed political party may hold the keys to a government without the right in Austria. The party is led by a man who calls himself Marco Pogo, a doctor who fronts the party’s in-house punk rock band: TURBOBIER. All caps.

Austria’s ‘Beer Party’ started as a joke. Now it could determine an election.


Growing backlash from law enforcement as NFL asks officers to submit to face scans The Record


 

Crypto is the new Trump family business. Ethics watchdogs have concerns. Politico


 

NSW dilutes protection against politicisation

NSW, like Victoria before it, is demonstrating once again that the dangers of politicisation do not lie with just one side of politics. 


Renowned Surgeon and Lead Author of New Lancet Study Tortured by Israeli Military Drop Site News


DOJ declares victory over Backpage as judge sends founder Lacey to prison: Lacey gets 5 years for one money laundering charge but was acquitted on 50 counts.

“Kitchen sink” indictments usually produce at least one conviction, just because the jury figures something should stick. That’s why they’re used


 Germany Vows ‘Knife Control’ After ISIS Refugee Slashes Throats at Diversity Festival.


Public sector consulting firm Scyne has appointed a senior Google executive, John Ball, as its inaugural chief executive as the start-up continues its push towards profitability.

Mr Ball has spent almost a decade at Google as its managing director of customer solutions for Australia and New Zealand. He was previously at Microsoft for 17 years, during which he held senior roles in Australia, China and the United States.

KPMG Australia will force advisers in its consulting division to put the firm’s interests before their own, as part of a direction to pursue profit-generating work over engagements that boost individual targets.
The move, outlined in an email to the consulting division last Thursday and seen by The Australian Financial Review, is designed to improve the results in a business that failed to meet its revenue targets last financial year and is being overhauled to focus on technology-related work. Advisers were told to use a new “mandatory pricing tool” so they can “make more informed decisions on pricing and whether we pursue a piece of work or not”.

Revealed: The sales targets KPMG Australia sets its consultants

Lisbon in August

Water is still cold according to JH


Alaska is even colder according to SH




The German far right and the scars of reunification