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Crikey readers talk the importance of vaccination and tax reform.

Crikey readers talk pokies, the principles of the Greens and what’s wrong with the ATO.

ATO to go miners over dodgy transactions? … Merry Christmas Tony Abbott, here is Crikey’s reading list for you … who’s who in newsrooms of old …

Crikey reader have their say.

The city of Sydney’s s-x industry is awash with unsafe s-x practices and no one is doing a thing about it, writes Chris Seage, tax consultant, former ATO audit manager and owner of Brothel Busters.

The government will allocate a further $445 million to the Australian Taxation Office in its fight against tax cheats. But it won’t cover everyone, writes former ATO audit manager Chris Seage.

Programs that deliver services to communities tend to be better carried out at lower levels for good reason, writes Stephen Bartos.

Crikey names the businesses who made a splash in 2009 — for all the right and wrong reasons.

Despite the claims of self-interested private equiteers and their hired help, the ATO’s decision to tax TPG’s billion-dollar Myer windfall was the right one.

The emerging stoush between the Australian Tax Office and the former private equity owners of Myer should warm the cockles of the hearts of every long-suffering Australian taxpayer.

In Opposition, Nick Sherry was a ferocious interrogator of the tax commissioner in estimates hearings. It’s amazing how politicians can suddenly change when they get into government, writes Chris Seage.

Which prison inmate is too fat to get out of bed? Who is really in charge of Nine’s programming? What’s happening with the ATO website? Tipsters tell all.

Is The Oz set for a major overhaul? And what’s happening down at the ATO?

Good old fashioned investigation into the Parramatta Eels and Cronulla Sharks reveals money laundering.

Tipsters tell of more Netbank issues, glitches at the ATO, possible job losses at Rio Tinto and more.

The Australian Taxation Office has decided to audit the books of Australians who have more than $30 million in personal wealth, says a Crikey tipster.

Seeing as the ABC in leaking like a sieve over the Chaser controversy, another employee gets in on the act. Plus more Westacott reminiscing, cheeky japes from the cricket world, the next appointee to the WA Supreme Court, and more.

Lights are on at the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department empty old building, and is anyone home at the Tax Office?

A robust round of SackWatch rumours in today’s edition of tips and rumours.

Senior ATO investigators who breached the secrecy provisions of the tax office will not be prosecuted, thanks to the Boucher Review’s terms of reference, writes Chris Seage.

A problem at the ATO is the reason why many Australians haven’t got their $900 tax bonus from the Federal Government yet, says Crikey intern Elly Keating.