PERKS! Fraud: Billions In Covid Relief Used For Perks Instead.
‘Malicious’ emails trigger panic, stress says demoted government staffer
A woman in a senior role at the Australian Taxation Office has sued her former boss for $700,000 claiming she was demoted and suffers panic attacks after he sent two “malicious” emails about her performance to her managers. Vanda Carson court reporter
A SENIOR public servant has sued her former boss for $700,000, claiming she was demoted and suffers panic attacks after he sent two malicious emails about her performance to her managers.
Joanne Casburn, 53, from Padding- ton in Brisbane’s inner western suburbs, who assessed tax on billion-dollar deals and worked with taxpayers worth $50m or more, has sued her former direct supervisor at the Australian Taxation Office, Gre- gory Dick, over the alleged defamatory slurs in the District Court in Brisbane.
She alleges he sent an email on January 7, 2019, containing 29 defamatory imputations and an email a month later on February 7, contain
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The ATO has been on a mission to stamp out the “reckless” and “baseless” use of legal privilege in tax matters as part of a campaign to eliminate multinational tax evasion.
Accounting giant PwC has inappropriately used legal privilege to shield documents from the tax office during an audit of its multinational clients, a judge has found, in a mixed ruling that could have wider implications for Australia’s professional services industry.
Federal Court Justice Mark Moshinsky ruled on Friday that a legitimate relationship between lawyer and client existed but that PwC had inappropriately applied privilege to more than half the documents requested by the Australian Tax Office.
The pre-judgment ruling could raise the bar for the use of legal privilege among Australia’s consulting and legal sectors, which have increasingly blended the use of lawyers and consultants to provide tax advice to multinational companies.
Judge finds PwC privilege over-used in tax audit
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At What Point Does a Billionaire’s Greed Hurt the Rest of Us?
How the growth of a billionaire class is the result of policy choices
The release of the Pandora Papers provided a rare glimpse into the financial affairs of the world’s rich and powerful. These documents and the stories they tell confirm some of our worst suspicions about the susceptibility of financial systems to corruption and tax avoidance. For the right price, assets and profits are easy to hide. With the Pandora coverage, the Biden administration’s efforts to strengthen IRS enforcement and ongoing investigations into the Trump Organization’s taxes, tax evasion has been in the news a lot lately. But many misperceptions — about the problem and possible solutions — persist.
- CNBC spoke with Erin Collins, the national taxpayer advocate, who leads an independent organization within the IRS, fighting for systemic changes.
- As “voice of the taxpayer,” she oversees about 80 nationwide offices providing one-on-one assistance, consults within the agency and presents legislative proposals to Congress.
- “It was the only job I would have considered for coming out of retirement,” said Collins, who has more than 35 years of tax law experience tackling IRS controversies.
Ukraine and literature
As Vladimir Putin's outrageous and ill-conceived war against Ukraine and the terrible toll it is taking continue there has been quite a lot of coverage of Ukrainian writers and writing: recent pieces now include Philipp Jedicke at Deutsche Welle considering Can literature rise up against Russia's war in Ukraine ? and in Tablet Vladislav Davidzon and and Kate Tsurkan offer a survey of The Landscape of Ukrainian Literature.
