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.
Tax cheats
Australia: a nation of dibber dobbers
We Aussies like to think of ourselves as a bit anti-authoritarian, but the data says otherwise, writes Ben Packham: tens of thousands of us are secretly dobbing in our neighbors to the ATO, Centrelink, Crime Stoppers and the EPA.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Climate change is terrifying
Crikey readers dispute Richard Farmer’s claims of most Tamil asylum seekers being economic migrants not refugees and the scary future we face with climate change.
Senator Nick Sherry is turning into a chameleon
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.
Tax Office won’t prosecute Australia’s worst tax cheat
Glenn Wheatley is jailed for $300,000 in tax cheating. Yet an unnamed tax cheat who owed tax totalling $242million gets away with no prosecution, writes Chris Seague.
