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Another sentenced in ATO fraud

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2020
... Federal Police (AFP) and assisted by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). It involved pay-as-you-go withholding tax and goods and services tax fraud. Anquetil was one of the founders of the payroll services company, Plutus Payroll, and one of the architects ...

Chief economist update: Cheaper prices not a bargain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2020
... slower overall economic growth - deflation has nasty consequences for the economy. This is because cheapening prices of goods and services, if it goes on long enough, would spark decreasing inflation expectations. Unless a necessity (like toilet paper ...

Value to be found in childcare stocks

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020
The government's ongoing fiscal support to the childcare industry throughout the pandemic has led to an undervaluation of childcare stock prices despite the COVID-19 surge in Victoria, according to latest research from Morningstar. Morningstar equity ...

Woman jailed in $105m tax scam

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2020
... investigation revealed a group of people that used payroll services companies to divert pay-as-you-go withholding tax and goods and services tax owed to the ATO. It was soon discovered one of the leaders of the syndicate was the son of former deputy ...

Melburnians back in the lockup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2020
... from 11:59pm, 8 July 2020, Melburnians will only be allowed to leave home for four reasons: to shop for food and essential goods and services; for care or compassionate reasons; exercise outdoors; for work or study - if you can't do it from home. ...

Experts battle for GST reform

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
... a six-month break from the 10% tax would help fight the COVID-19 recession. It comes as PwC proposes an increase to the goods and services tax to 12.5%, which it says will help address the fiscal issues and structural challenges facing the nation over ...

Pessimism strikes Australia, US optimistic

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2020
Financial professionals in the United States are optimistic about a market recovery, while pessimism is highest in the Asian region where professionals are forecasting double-digit losses, according to Natixis. In its most recent Natixis Investment ...

GDP figures reveal start of COVID-19 impact

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2020
... impacted most severely, such as air transport services, hotels, cafes and restaurants, recreation and culture. Spending on goods rose, most notably in food and pharmaceuticals, as households prepared for the introduction of restrictions. The ABS said ...

Financial stress increases despite relaxed conditions

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... The survey reports that around 24% of respondents are feeling financially stressed when it comes to paying for essential goods and services, and increase of about three percentage points from when the nation's temperature was taken just a week earlier. ...

Chief economist update: China's beef with Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... Overall, and in Australian dollar terms, Australia received more than it spent on trade with China - earning A$123.3 billion in goods and services exports to China (as at FY2017/18 based on DFAT numbers) and spending only A$71.3 billion on imports from ...