Monday, December 11, 2017

Tax Chief: Chris Jordan Exclusive Inteviews

Selected exclusive stories by Nick Tabakoff | Author at The Australian




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The Australian Tax Office is targeting hundreds more of the country's richest people as the man who replaced disgraced Michael Cranston takes a more personal approach to high-end tax avoidance. 
"This is a prevention rather than correction strategy," Mr Day told The Australian Financial Review.

Under the auspices of the Tax Avoidance Taskforce the team run by Will Day, the ATO's new deputy commissioner of private groups and high wealth individuals, has been conducting one-on-one interviews with representatives of the top 320 private groups, many of whom appear in the Financial Review Rich List


It is an entirely different approach for the ATO, which has typically relied on audit and review activity to catch cheats. 

ATO targets hundreds of Australia's richest people | 



Chris Jordan has never run from a fight. Having spent his childhood as the sixth of seven kids in a two-bedroom house in the shadow of Sydney’s Kingsford Smith airport, he learned to scrap for everything: from bedroom drawers to food


              
Illustration: Michael Mucci





Illustration: Michael Mucci 



Chris Jordan on why the ATO is ‘designing for the majority’.
"In Australia, there are many regulators (including the ATO historically), and government agencies that focus more on the people who do the wrong thing. They administer systems for the very last worst person – which imposes unnecessary burdens on those who want to do the right thing."



ATO commissioner takes aim at tax agents who “lead taxpayers” to dodgy deductions





Cranston scandal my most difficult case, says ATO boss

Tax chief Chris Jordan targets property rental rorts - Report on the ATO's scrutiny of the rental property market by monitoring electricity and gas records and real estate agents


Billions in dodgy tax deductions: nurses, teachers, police exposed - Report that the ATO plan to crackdown on tax agents who claim big deductions for specific professions including nurses, teachers and police

ATO eyes legal fight against BHP, Rio over Singapore hubs - Report on Tax Commissioner Chris Jordan's comments that the ATO is prepared to go to court against the mining companies on their use of Singapore-based marketing hubs for tax purposes





Relaxed about change: Chris Jordan is the first tax commissioner to be appointed to the ATO from outside the organisation.
Relaxed about change: Chris Jordan is the first tax commissioner to be appointed to the ATO from outside the organisation. Photo: Rob Homer
Tax chief Chris Jordan leads global response to Paradise Papers leak - Report on the ATO's response to the Paradise Papers data leak to include focus on professional service firms

Taxman targets specific suburbs in cash-only business blitz - Report on an interview with the Tax Commissioner, Chris Jordan, discussing ATO audits targeting the black economy

Australian Taxation Office's Chris Jordan in "Al Capone" style bid to stop bikies - Report that Tax Commissioner, Chris Jordan, has unveiled a plan to give motorcycle gangs the "Al Capone treatment" to ensure more criminals go to prison, as crack joint Australian Taxation Office and police teams form a powerful alliance against organised crime

$5bn tax crackdown targets multinational technology giants - Report that Tax Commissioner, Chris Jordan, will initiate joint forensic tax audits with other countries' authorities, in an unprecedented escalation of his crusade to ensure the world's biggest companies, including Amazon, Google and Facebook, pay their fair share of tax in Australia



Chris Jordan: the ATO outsider ready to build bridges



Chris Jordan, tax avenger leads the hunt for millions spirited overseas



Google and MEdia Dragon Coverage: Chris Jordan


 Behind a $191m Gen Y crime wave


CODA: A tax haven blacklist without the UK is a whitewash | Prem Sikka


Breaking up Big IT Players is hard to do


 Tax Games - the Race to the Bottom