457 visas are now being granted at a rate of more than 10,000 a month. In June, 1,200 of those visas took less than a week to process, writes Michael Pascoe.
Tax
Is carbon trading another GST?
Is an emissions trading scheme Kevin Rudd’s GST? asks Charles Richardson.
Parliament greenlights dodgy tax office settlements
After a two and a half year inquiry into tax office administration that spanned two Parliaments, the Joint Committee Of Public Accounts and Audit have concluded…wait for it…drum role please…A simpler tax system is needed in Australia, writes Chris Seage.
Welfare and the working family: someone do something
The elevation of Simon and Sonya Dorries of Brisbane to national fame is an elegant example of how utterly skewed political debate has become, writes Bernard Keane.
Three cheers for Queensland’s coal royalty slug
Whilst no-one likes tax rises, Wayne Swan and Anna Bligh should be congratulated for together slugging the North West Shelf and Queensland coal miners with a $1.1 billion tax rise for 2008-09, writes Stephen Mayne.
Barns: Henson a victim of abuse of process
Bill Henson is the victim of vigilantism and a police force seeking to utilise the criminal law in a way that borders on abuse of process, writes Greg Barns.
GST and fuel excise: A taxing argument
Every time there’s a new problem for the Government it gets whacked onto the tax review. Now it’s an investigation of the interaction of the GST and fuel excise, writes Bernard Keane.
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The politics of the surging cost of oil … Tania Zaetta … Wollongong’s “table of knowledge” … rorting surgical billing … tax cheats and tax babies …
Labor targets 600,000 tax cheats
The announcement by the Australian Taxation Office yesterday they are targeting 600,000 Australians who have purchased a motor vehicle valued at over $57,009 has sent shock waves through the Australian luxury automobile industry as well as aspirational voters, writes Chris Seage.
The $25 billion debt expansion and tax cut that wasn’t in the budget
Yesterday we discovered the Rudd government’s media manipulation extended to actually delaying important debt and tax announcements until after the budget, writes Stephen Mayne
Celebrity tax cheat eats roast lemon chicken
Glenn Wheatley, former member of The Master’s Apprentices, manager of John Farnham and former manager of Delta, diddled his taxes. For some reason the media thought that warranted tailing the “celebrity tax cheat” OJ style, writes Sophie Black.
D’Ascenzo: Trust in me your tax sins and… go to jail
Tax Commissioner Michael D’Ascenzo is getting desperate. He knows his much vaunted Operation Wickenby is seriously in the red, writes former tax office auditor Chris Seage.
Iemma tries to crash through electricity privatisation
Unions are threatening to crash Morris Iemma’s party after he attempted to rush through his electricity privatisation bill , writes Alex Mitchell.
Comitatus Column: The Tarago Tax
Brendan Nelson’s rage against the ‘Tarago Tax’ needs a bit of a reality check, writes Possum Comitatus
Carnal camera! Tax sleuths seize CCTV from brothels
The ATO are now seizing brothels’ CCTV footage to check the number of patrons against their cash receipts, writes Chris Seage.
