Feb 12, 2019 | In the news
Unions have demanded the government come clean on which businesses lobbied it to drop plans to introduce a register to help stamp out multinational tax avoidance. The government has previously made clear its commitment to introduce a beneficial ownership register, a...
Dec 19, 2018 | In the news
The petroleum resource rent tax should be expanded by introducing a 10 per cent royalty on offshore gas to capture more revenue from Australia’s booming oil and gas industry, says leftwing think tank the McKell Institute. Australian Taxation Office statistics...
Dec 19, 2018 | In the news
Surging commodity prices and a crackdown on foreign tech companies delivered the Morrison government bumper revenue last year, even though about a third of large companies paid no tax. Data released by the Taxation Office on Thursday shows the big end of town paid...
Dec 14, 2018 | In the news
Offshore gas projects should be subject to a new 10% royalty to further fix the “broken” petroleum resources rent tax, a report has found. The McKell Institute has released a blueprint for addressing failings in Australia’s taxation of the resources and extractive...
Dec 11, 2018 | In the news
There are questions over why a company with ties to tax havens has been awarded more than $120 million in contracts to the Australian Tax Office and Centrelink. The parent company to ‘Stellar Asia Pacific’ has left a string of unpaid creditors in the UK,...
Dec 10, 2018 | In the news
Multinational corporations providing labour and call centre staff to the Australian Taxation Office either share links with tax havens or engage in questionable tax practices, a new report has found. Texas-based firm Stellar, the UK-based multinational Serco and...
