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The Great Social Care Gold Rush: How Hedge Funds and Private Investors are Distorting the ‘Market’ of People in Need
By Katharine Quarmby and Sian Norris, 8 September 2021 "Those wishing to sell the financial advantages of the sector talk of its fill rates, future-proofing, an attractive market place, resilient investment activity, and solid long-term fundamentals. As Savills said...
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How Uber Australia fills a Dutch ‘cash pool’ and why it is fighting an $81.5m payroll tax bill
Nassim Khadem, 8 September 2021 "Several submissions to Senate Select Committee on Job Security argued that Dutch shell companies are at the heart of Uber's global operations. One submission from the Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research...
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Gov’t ‘wilfully blind’ to public sector labour hire
Denham Sadler, 27 August 2021 "Appearing before a public hearing of the committee on Monday morning, the Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability’s Dr Claire Parfitt said the organisation has found it hard to research the use of labour hire within the APS...
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Labour hire firms receiving equivalent to 20 per cent of APS wages spend while avoiding tax: advocates
Doug Dingwall, 26 July 2021 "Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research senior researcher Claire Parfitt said on Monday that labour hire firms should be required to report their tax payments for every country, showing federal agencies how much...
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Outsourced tech contracts ‘defy common sense’
Denham Sadler, 26 July 2021 "Representatives from the Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research (CICTAR) fronted a public hearing on Monday morning as part of the Senate inquiry into the current capability of the Australian Public Service....
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Long term matters: It’s corporate tax, stupid
By Raj Thamotheram "Stripped of all its complexity, the fundamental question about corporate tax is whether investors want increased profitability by avoiding tax or the alternative, which is a race to the bottom. Many investors have colluded with this race, mostly...
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Scrutiny on tax obligations for ‘visa processing 2.0’ plan
Tom McIlroy May 30, 2021 'Tax watchdogs and Labor have asked the Morrison government to explainrequirements for companies bidding to deliver a new platform aimed at digitising visa processing, after a change in rules from an abandoned outsourcing plan. The Department...
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Champions League of tax avoidance:’ Uber used 50 Dutch shell companies to dodge taxes on nearly $6 billion in revenue, report says
Image: Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. Riccardo Savi/Getty May 12, 2021 Tyler Sonnemaker Uber used around 50 Dutch shell companies to help reduce its global tax burden, an Australian research group found.Despite earning $5.8 billion in global revenues in 2019, Uber...
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Ministers urged to act on Uber’s 50-company Dutch tax shelter
May 11th, 2021 'The Dutch government should thoroughly investigate the network of 50 or so Uber shell companies registered in the Netherlands because of the implications for the global economy, according to an Australian NGO which investigated the company’s tax...
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A Cheap Ride
April 26, 2021 Samira Ataei and Evert de Vos How Uber avoids taxes worldwide with Dutch private companies 'The car is untouchable in Australia. Wide streets, hardly any cyclists, plenty of parking spaces and excellent roads. The continent-sized country is fully...
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