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ATO audit division goes for JobKeeper jugular again! Trashing the ATO’s reputation
Monday, July 6, 2020
One might have thought that the ATO's audit and enforcement division would have learnt from last week's debacle (apparently now resolved). But no! It continues to trash the good work the ATO has done with implementing the government's COVID-19 programs with its latest round of "auto" letters threatening small businesses with withdrawal of their JobKeeper entitlements...... MoreThe ATO’s coming to get you! You’re a Covid-19 fraudster they say
Tuesday, June 30, 2020
For all the great work the ATO has done implementing Covid-19 support packages, it’s decided to blow up that good work. How? In its zeal to pursue what it believes is 'Covid-19 fraud', the ATO's audit and enforcement division is making use of its wide discretionary interpretation of the law. If the ATO reckons you’re a fraudster, that’s it! Your access to independent appeal is essentially non-existent..... More Anti-Trump Democrats get political black eye from small business
Thursday, May 28, 2020
Californian Democrats have suffered an unusual electoral loss in the wake of their controversial anti-independent contractor legislation (AB5) which came into effect in January. The implications for Presidential and Congressional elections later this year are intriguing, given that Democrat Presidential candidate Joe Biden has committed to rolling out AB5 across the rest of America. Will it backfire?..... More In Praise of the Australian Taxation Office – Coronavirus
Sunday, May 24, 2020
The 'shortfall' in the number of businesses/employees making claim on the JobKeeper program, revealed last Friday, was met with a number of "shock, horror" media stories. But a more sober assessment of the magnitude of the issues the ATO faced and the tight timelines surrounding them lead us to believe that the ATO should be praised, rather than criticized, for its efforts over the last couple of months .... MoreMore SEA News...
We’re in Washington DC researching good tax administration laws
During October 2019, SEA Executive Director Ken Phillips has been in Washington DC researching how USA law makers have sought to make the US tax administrator (IRS) efficient, fair and transparent.Here’s some short YouTube posts explaining what we’re doing (click on the image for the YouTube vid):
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• Labor says ‘too little, too late’
• What the Small Business Ombudsman says
• Stamp Out Reverse Factoring YouTube
• The full story – Bad big business
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Public sector bureaucracies along with unions are wanting to close down the right to be self-employed. We have seen these attacks before such as:
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See our responses on these arguments in 2011. See our success at the International Labour Organisation in 2006.
And now the new attack is against the ‘gig economy’. We have new campaigns on our hands!
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