Hey, ATO, leave us kids alone!
IT’S THE AT-NO
A FRIEND of mine got a call last week from the Australian Tax Office.
That’s bad enough, but he was completely thrown about what they were after.
The crabby ATO operative was incensed that his business had not filed for GST … in the September 2001 quarter.
This for a business that hadn’t operated for 20 years. Unbelievable.
Apparently if he didn’t send through the required details then they’d come down on him like a tonne of bricks.
‘But aren’t people only required to keep financials for seven years?’ I hear you ask.
Well yes, but ‘too bad’ was the response.
This from a taxpayer funded organisation that has paid out hundreds of millions of dollars in the past year to ‘business owners’ claiming fake GST receipts.
The ruse worked simply enough: create an ABN and claim receipts for work that never existed.
The ATO automatically paid out like a malfunctioning pokie machine. Millions more was then spent taking these ‘entrepreneurs’ to court.
Maybe that’s why the ATO is chasing my old mate… they’re broke!
ROCK ON BABY
Is it just me or is this Glasshouse quarry debacle dragging on a touch too long.
Just make it stop, or go, or something.
Now we’ve got kids going on about the risk of extra blasting to black cockatoos.
Can’t they just fly away?
If they’re that hopeless maybe the world is better off without them.
I’m confident David Attenborough would agree.
BACK AGAIN
Another Powerball jackpot has come and gone… I’ll be here next week folks.
