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Tax Justice Network Australia

Phone: +61 3 9251 5271

Address: 29 College Crescent 3052 Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Website: http://taxjustice.org.au

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25.01.2022 "For decades, advocates of the outsourcing and privatisation of public services have boasted of the cost savings of doing so. Today, we are counting the cost. We will be counting it for years to come."

24.01.2022 Labor proposals include minimum staffing levels in residential aged care in order to increase the number of nurses and other staff...[and] will also call for changes to ensure accountability of funding

24.01.2022 If youre getting taxpayer subsidies, you shouldnt be diverting money for workers into shareholder payouts!

21.01.2022 Vanuatu is not the problem...

21.01.2022 Canadians for Tax Fairness! Time to tax extreme wealth!!!

20.01.2022 ICYMI: Its good to see mainstream media asking where the billions in funding really go in aged care, research we have been involved with the past few years. Th...e Daily Telegraph, Courier Mail, Advertiser and Herald Sun are doing an Aged Care 360 investigation over the next 2 days. Join Annie Butler (ANMF Fed) and Jason Ward (CICTAR) on the panel tomorrow. You can watch the TV panel online at your local News Corp masthead website from Thursday September 3 at 6am AEST. See more

19.01.2022 according to a detailed report by the Tax Justice Network Australia and the Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability & Research ...a key objective (of TriCare) appears to be to shift profits, equity and debt to minimise tax payments.

19.01.2022 No accountability on federal funds!

18.01.2022 This man, a part-time priest at the heart of a US$1 BILLION fraud allegation, "operates at the highest levels of corporate tax and policy. As chairman of the OECD tax advisory committee, he is a powerful lobbying force" and is "deputy global tax policy leader at accounting giant PwC".

18.01.2022 Growing public anger must be channelled into real action: making corporations and the mega rich finally pay their fair share to build back better public services. - Rosa Pavanelli, PSI

18.01.2022 "Continuing with austerity measures during this grave crisis is putting at risk the lives of the poor and marginalised. It is rather time to expand social spend...ing by curtailing tax dodging and by imposing extra tax on those profiting from, and in, the crisis." Dereje Alemayehu from the Global Alliance for Tax Justice Join us in an online rally organized by the Asian Peoples Movement on Debt and Development and the Tax and Fiscal Justice Asia as part of the Global Days of Action for Tax and Fiscal Justice led by the Global Alliance for Tax Justice. You may register at bit.ly/GDOAAsiaRally

18.01.2022 TriCare is owned by Queensland rich-listers the OShea family and operates via shelf companies it has created on Norfolk Island - a known tax haven - in a complex corporate structure experts say is almost certainly designed to avoid tax.

17.01.2022 Tax the global tech giants now!!!

16.01.2022 Based on a courageous letter from workers and a TJN/CICTAR report from a year ago. "Staff said the source of the problems was clear. TriCare was profiteering and abusing taxpayer funds. Its a lucrative businessIt could be a lot different if they just redirected some of the funds towards the care of the residents." https://www.theklaxon.com.au//98rnfob2xmxhyxrzq8f5a2gaz1am

16.01.2022 If youre getting taxpayer subsidies, the CEO shouldnt be getting a bonus!

15.01.2022 Any excuse to call for tax cuts... Corporate tax cuts do not create jobs or investment!!! Very simple, they increase corporate profits and inequality...

14.01.2022 Theres an absence of accountability, and there is no consequences for failing to deliver good care in aged care."

14.01.2022 Senate hearing today beginning at 4pm on a bill to require disclosure of abuse of tax havens by federal contractors. You can watch live here: https://www.aph.gov.au/Watch_Read_Listen

14.01.2022 "A series of detailed financial analyses of the industry by the Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research (CICTAR) found its almost impossible to understand where the funding for aged care goes."

14.01.2022 "Jason Ward, a tax expert who has spent years investigating how the aged care industry spends almost $20 billion a year in taxpayer funds, told the ABC that ...there is a complete lack of transparency and a lack of accountability. While these providers have gotten additional money, there is no evidence that they have actually spent that money in a way thats been effective in preventing the spread of this disease and unnecessary deaths. https://thediplomat.com//australias-aged-care-facilities-/

13.01.2022 The case is significant for Australia for the light it sheds on one way that multinationals have used hybrid partnership structures to claim the same tax deductions both here and in Europe. Health insurer BUPA, which used a similar partnership structure, reported a cash settlement of $157 million with the ATO

12.01.2022 Simple steps towards tax justice....

11.01.2022 Transparency & Accountability in Aged Care Now!

10.01.2022 The long-term CEO of one of the nations biggest not-for-profit aged care providers previously directed global tax affairs at Coca-Cola - one of the worlds biggest confirmed tax cheats.

08.01.2022 The Australian public and residents of aged care facilities, who together fund aged care in Australia, have a right to know where their money is spent by aged c...are providers. Federal politicians can act for aged care now by voting yes to the Senator Stirling Griff Financial Transparency Bill. https://fal.cn/39ZTH #agedcare #transparency Pauline Hansons Please Explain Malcolm Roberts - Pauline Hansons One Nation #WINNews6pm Bill Shorten MP ABC The Drum The Project The Saturday Paper See more

07.01.2022 "Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research consultant Jason Ward told the show aged care had become a market based privatised approach..."If we want to get results we have to mandate transparency and we have to know that that money is being spent on care, and we know for now that lots of that money is not being spent on care its being spent on executive compensation."

07.01.2022 "Tax dodging by big corporations means less nurses and doctors, less hospitals and schools, less emergency services. For a healthy society, we need to change th...e global tax rules so that corporates and billionaires cant hide their wealth." - Kate Lappin from PSI - Public Services International Asia Pacific Join us in an online rally organized by the Asian Peoples Movement on Debt and Development and the Tax and Fiscal Justice Asia as part of the Global Days of Action for Tax and Fiscal Justice led by the Global Alliance for Tax Justice. REGISTER now at bit.ly/GDOAAsiaRally

07.01.2022 Theres no requirement for transparency whatsoever, Ward said. Ive looked, Ive done three reports on this ... looking at for profits and not-for-profits, and in all cases there is a complete lack of transparency.

05.01.2022 "a misplaced sense that national interest is served by protecting multinationals has prevailed over global public needs"

04.01.2022 "The top 20% of taxpayers will get 91% of the benefit and the top 10% will get 52% of the benefit. ...The Australia Institute paper, by senior economist Matt Grudnoff, concluded that bringing forward the income tax cuts was an ineffective stimulus."

03.01.2022 There is an urgent need for transparency across the aged care sector. Watch the full #AgedCare360 Panel discussion...

03.01.2022 the five Luxembourg companies that Millard had been manager of held ownership stakes, directly or indirectly in Coca-Cola HBCs operations, including in Nigeria, Bulgaria, Armenia, Romania and Moldova. ...company filings obtained by CICTAR stated that those five Luxembourg companies stated that they were not liable to taxes on income or to taxes on capital gains.