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Up yours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
... up. Now let's go back to the finger - the middle one. This is Citigroup giving the 'sign' to the US government, the US taxpayers and everyone around the world still grieving over the significant erosion of their wealth. News overnight report that Citigroup ...

Fully sick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
... will get this stamp on their TARP loans after the US Treasury approved their repayment of a combined US$68 billion of taxpayers' money. No names were mentioned on which banks are queuing up at the Treasury cashier to pay. But Bloomberg reports that 'JPMorgan ...

Working mothers caught in tax snafu

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
... revenue. Refining the analysis even further to look at people earning above $150,000 who make up the top 2 per cent of taxpayers, Rainmaker found they pay 22 per cent of personal income tax revenue. What the ideal allocation between income share and ...

GS trounces GM

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2009
... bankruptcy? Surely they are as valid now as they were back when its private jet flying CEO first came a begging the US taxpayers for salvation. GS (green shoots) happened is what happened. The financial system survived Bear Sterns, Lehman, Fannie and ...

ATO targets loss schemes

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2009
... it is implemented in accordance with the arrangement in that product ruling. Finally the ATO is also cracking down on taxpayers who attempt to claim a capital loss arising from the artificial receipt of an interest in a discretionary trust as a default ...

No two ways about it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
... budget deficits this year. I have even written about this late last year, discussing how national governments (read taxpayers) are paying for the sins of their banks and financial institutions - debt was transferred from private to public hands. That ...

AIA public listing one step closer

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
... this stage, we believe that a public listing for AIA would be in the best interests of all stakeholders, including US taxpayers, policyholders, employees and distribution partners." "[The] announcement represents a clear and formal roadmap for our independence. ...

What-if scenarios bring Budget blues

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
... Government slash the predicted budget deficit in the next few years but this could come at a higher cost to superannuants and taxpayers in the long term, industry experts said. With a reported budget deficit likely to be around $30 billion or as high ...

Beware the Budgets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
... from left field knocks the wind off the gradual but steady stabilisation in the economy. Just in case consumers and taxpayers clam up in fear of their government's efforts to claw back the trillions of dollars spent preventing the recession from becoming ...

ATO relays transitional rules concerns

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
... provisions only apply in specific circumstances. "We are aware these arrangements are being promoted and are concerned that taxpayers may be tempted into such arrangements without realising the transitional provisions may not apply to their circumstances," ...