It’s not long before we all attempt to eat too much Christmas pudding and hopefully settle down for a decent holiday relax! To all SEA members: our grateful thanks for your support during this very big year. Your membership contributions keep our efforts going, defending the rights of self-employed people.
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Christmas just around the corner—some quick updates
Let’s stamp out reverse factoring—It’s big business at its worst
I’m in Parliament House Canberra.
We’ve talked about this before… reverse factoring.
Let’s stamp it out.
Here’s our quick YouTube post from Parliament calling for action:
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ATO—Bullying and fear. IRS—Accountability, checks and balances, service!
I’ve just completed a two-week research project in Washington DC into the laws governing the operations of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The IRS’s operations are starkly and vastly superior to those of the ATO. The difference is in the laws covering the IRS.
Here’s my brief two-minute YouTube overview of what I’ve discovered. More...
Explosive, gobsmacking statements by Tax Commissioner raise serious concerns about democracy, the rule of law and cover-up
Perhaps we thought we’d seen just about every ‘trick’ by the ATO, but the statements by the Tax Commissioner to the Senate on Wednesday (23 October) go to an entirely new level. The ATO ‘battle bar’ has just been raised, big time!
What has motivated the Commissioner is the ‘Right to Know’ public campaign being conducted by a large coalition of Australian media interests against the government’s suppression of free speech. This week ‘Right to Know’ released its first television/on-line advert. The opening ‘punch’ in the advert asserts that the ATO can take money directly out of people’s accounts “but you’re not allowed to know…” More...
Big business is endlessly creative in screwing small business
They are very good, you know! That is, big businesses are really good at working out how to ‘do over’ their small business suppliers.
Perhaps big businesses are most creative in the ‘gotcha’ game in the way they avoid paying small business people on time. Ooops, or sometimes even avoid payment?
Australia’s largest construction conglomerate, CIMIC, has been outed. It has been reported that instead of paying its small business suppliers within 30 days, it’s going to be 65 days! Ah—very smart! And get this: They are doing this on state government-funded projects such as Melbourne’s Metro Trains and Brisbane’s Cross River Rail. More...
Democracy crumbling in chaos—do boofheads now rule?
Is politics in democracies now bonkers? Does no-one respect experts and authority anymore? Has politeness disappeared from political discussion? Is intimidation destroying free speech? More...
‘Houston we have a problem’—says ATO—at long last!
In 1970, when the Apollo 13 space mission suffered a major malfunction, the astronauts immediately declared to mission headquarters in Houston, Texas: ‘Houston we’ve had a problem’. Here’s a clip from the 1995 Tom Hanks’ movie on Apollo 13 in which he makes the declaration.
Recognising and admitting to a problem is the first, most critical step to fixing it.
Just a week ago Tax Commissioner Chris Jordan finally declared ‘we have a problem’. But, wow, has that declaration been a long time coming! More...
ATO power push lacks proper checks and balances—Credit agency reporting
We’re campaigning to create ‘rule of law’ checks and balances on the Australian Taxation Office. But, while we do that, the ATO is pushing parliament hard for new laws to extend its powers, with minimal if any checks and balances. They do this under the excuse of reining in the black economy.
Parliament and the community should not be conned by this ATO power grab. The ATO’s power push perverts both the rule of law and the democratic process. More...
How the UK tax authority has stuffed small business tax policy
Finally, a reaction is happening from ‘the peoples’ parliament
I was in London in early August networking with key campaigners on UK small business tax issues. This included our long-time friends at contractorcalculator and (separately) the Association for Independent Professionals and the Self Employed (IPSE). The reason for meeting up with our friends was to achieve a deeper understanding of the behaviour of taxing authorities internationally. More...
We need your help to defend democracy from an aggressive ATO bureaucracy—Richard Boyle GoFundMe
This is a very special appeal for your help to defend against the ATO small business bully.
We’re asking you to contribute to the legal defence fund for Richard Boyle, the ATO whistleblower. We consider Richard a hero for democracy. He exposed the truth about ATO abuse at great personal risk to himself and his family. We must support Richard.
Richard is facing a staggering 161 years in jail under ATO prosecution. Mass murderers don’t face this. It demonstrates the vindictiveness of the ATO. More...
Recent Posts
- Christmas just around the corner—some quick updates
- Let’s stamp out reverse factoring—It’s big business at its worst
- A Victorian Act of Evil — Most likely unconstitutional! — Most likely to be passed in Parliament
- ATO—Bullying and fear. IRS—Accountability, checks and balances, service!
- Explosive, gobsmacking statements by Tax Commissioner raise serious concerns about democracy, the rule of law and cover-up
- Big business is endlessly creative in screwing small business
- Democracy crumbling in chaos—do boofheads now rule?
- ‘Houston we have a problem’—says ATO—at long last!
- ATO power push lacks proper checks and balances—Credit agency reporting
- How the UK tax authority has stuffed small business tax policy
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