Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ hopes of raising an extra $2.4 billion from the oil and gas industry are under further threat, with the Greens accusing the government of creating a sweetheart deal to protect the North West Shelf from paying more tax.
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What Senator Thorpe was referring to is highlighting the practice of institutional racism, something that we’ve seen, for example, Stan Grant draw attention to over the period of time. “The reality is, this is a company that has not been open and honest with the Australian people, indeed 53 people within PwC Australia and PwC Global had access to confidential information.”
The tax scandal was referred to the AFP for investigation last week, and the head of the Finance Department revealed the firm was ordered toThe scandal first came to light in December, when the Tax Practitioners Board found Peter Collins, PwC’s former head of international tax,Bandt says Woodside are ‘disgraceful’ for not paying fair share of taxGreens leader Adam Bandt lashed the government’s “very weak” tax on offshore gas companies, and labelled it a “sweetheart deal” for some companies.
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