Tradesmen, building workers, elite athletes, cleaners and dodgy businessmen who collapse companies are on the tax office budget hit list over the next four years, writes Chris Seage, a tax consultant and former ATO audit manager.
Pay income tax
Tax returns to get simpler but accountants suffer
The Government will introduce a standardised deduction for workers filing their income tax returns in 2012, with some 6.4 million Australians expected to receive a tax benefit as part of the scheme, writes Patrick Stafford.
Andrew Murray: What to do with the surplus?
From a forecasting perspective it is a poor show when a Government gets the surplus so badly wrong just three months after the budget, but they are serial offendors on this front, so none of us are surprised, writes Senator Andrew Murray.
$17billion of our money, p-ssed up against the wall
One question the media are unlikely to ask about Peter Costello’s revelation of a $17.3b surplus for 2006-07 is what right does a government have to rip that much money out of taxpayers with nothing to show for it?
