The Tax Office is caught up in a battle with the US government and tech giants like Microsoft over plans to tax billions of dollars’ worth of software transactions for the first time.
The Schwarzenegger Climate Initiative said the actor “co-operated at every step even though it was an incompetent shakedown”.
The singer,who also has a second tax fraud investigation pending with Spanish authorities,had previously vowed to fight what she called false accusations.
The NSW government has backflipped on a decision to collect payroll tax for independent GPs,but only for 12 months.
The dairy farming family that scored a $30 million windfall from the sale of the so-called Leppington Triangle secured a big victory against Revenue NSW in the Supreme Court.
Private practices assumed payroll did not apply to GPs,but the State Revenue Office has sought to recoup unpaid taxes from “several” clinics in Victoria.
Trump refused to release his tax returns before and during his presidency,citing what he said was an ongoing audit by the Internal Revenue Service.
Shakira,45,has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and rejected a deal with authorities to avoid going to trial.
Australia’s biggest iron ore miner,Rio Tinto,has agreed to one of the largest tax settlements in the country’s history.
The 91-year-old former racing boss has been charged with fraud over a failure to declare more than $700 million of overseas assets to the British tax authority.
MPs want to put the onus of proof onto the Tax Office when accusing people of breaking the law.