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posted by janrinok on Saturday September 17 2016, @03:13AM   Printer-friendly
from the accountants-legally-accounting dept.

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has warned that the nation's attempts at imposing a "Google Tax" are already being circumvented, and suggested big accountancy firms have found a way around efforts to stymie multinational tax avoidance.

Australia's Google Tax, formally known as the Multinational Anti-Avoidance Law (MAAL), is modelled on the UK's and imposes penalties on companies that move money offshore for the sole purpose of legally-but-cynically avoiding tax.

[...] Indeed the Office says it's just found a new [technique] it considers "artificial and contrived," as it "involves interposing an entity described as a partnership between the foreign entity originally making supplies to Australian customers, and the Australian customers."

"The partnership has one resident corporate partner with a minority interest in the partnership, therefore purporting to characterise the partnership as an 'Australian entity' for the purposes of the MAAL." But nothing changes in the business' actual operations, and the ATO says: "The arrangements have little, if any, commercial basis."


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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 17 2016, @09:12AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 17 2016, @09:12AM (#403071)

    Then I will take away the fact that you are a sociopathic cunt.

    If you are ok with systematic rape, sexual abuse (including children) then I very, very glad that I am not like you.

    Also, you make me sick.

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