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 |  Subject: OZschwitz gulag: Deal with gangsters at the Tax Office allows Hogan to return to US  Sat Sep 04, 2010 4:36 am | |
| PAUL HOGAN is free to leave the country after reaching an agreement with the Tax Office.
His lawyer, Andrew Robinson, said yesterday that the actor and the Tax Office had agreed on terms, including Hogan providing security, but he did not specify the amount.
The meeting with the Tax Office representatives was ''cordial and co-operative'', Mr Robinson said, but he reiterated that Hogan was still in dispute on the tax issue and denied any wrongdoing.
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| | Subject: Re: OZschwitz gulag: Deal with gangsters at the Tax Office allows Hogan to return to US Mon Sep 06, 2010 4:11 am | |
| Hoges gives OZschwitz taxman a blast
Paul Hogan has landed back in LA, vowing to continue his fight with Australian tax authorities.
A wise-cracking Paul Hogan, sans fake moustache, has touched down in his adopted home of Los Angeles, but there was no laughing when the man known as Crocodile Dundee launched a fresh attack on Australian tax authorities.
The comedian's wife Linda Kozlowski and son Chance opted not to be at Los Angeles international airport when his Qantas flight landed although a wall of cameras and reporters was waiting.
"Look! There's Paris Hilton," Hogan, pointing off into the distance, said in the hope the media would leave him alone.
The 70-year-old said his wife "was a bit scared" when the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) stopped him from leaving Australia after he flew in for his mother Florence's funeral.
He said he was relieved to be back in the US and looking forward to being reunited with his family at their gated Malibu home.
The ATO's travel ban was lifted on Friday.
Hogan has no hard feelings toward his homeland and says he will definitely be back in Australia for Christmas, or maybe sooner, but he did not disguise his feelings about the Australian tax authorities who allege he owes an almost $A100 million tax debt.
"Yeah," Hogan said when asked if he still planned to travel to Australia.
"It's only a couple of assholes who treated me badly.
"They're not going to trap me there again. They wouldn't dare."
He added the only reason the Australian tax authorities let him leave was because of the bad publicity the travel restriction had created worldwide. Hogan also dismissed reports the ATO lifted the ban after "friendly" discussions.
"It wasn't friendly," Hogan said.
"They let me out because of the bad publicity around the world.
"It was sort of 'What? You get kept in there (Australia)? Guilty until proven innocent?'
"Their (ATO's) words were 'Shut up, you can leave. You've got seven days.'"
Hogan remains defiant, saying his fight with the ATO was not "over by a longshot".
When it was suggested to Hogan he was now in America, the land of the free, the comedian defended Australia.
"I come from the land of the free," he said.
"It's just some crazy bureaucrats."
Jesting, he said America's feared tax police, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), had nothing on the ATO.
"I have come to this great tax haven, the USA, where the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) are gentlemen compared to our lot," he said.
Hogan was targeted by Project Wickenby, the ATO's five-year $A400 million-plus tax probe aimed at offshore havens.
Hogan described Wickenby as "a huge disaster" and a waste of Australian taxpayers' money, and said he hoped the media would launch its own investigation into Wickenby.
"How much money have they spent of taxpayer dollars? How much have they got back?" Hogan said.
"All it needs is some reporters with some balls."
Asked if the public could expect to see Hogan star in a Project Wickenby-inspired comedy feature film once the real-life drama was over, he said: "Yeah, a docudrama. Good idea."
Hogan was dressed casually in a checked long-sleeved shirt, camel slacks and sunglasses and carrying a suit travel bag on his left shoulder.
He opted not to wear the fake black handle-bar moustache he used as a joke disguise when he arrived at Sydney airport on Sunday for his flight to LA.
But he needed the sunglasses inside the dark, cavernous LA airport terminal to face the camera flashes of the British paparazzi agencies after his 14-hour flight across the Pacific.
"I've gone blind now," Hogan said before heading toward his chauffeur-driven black town car.
"I have to go."
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