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| Subject: OZschwitz amnesty congame: Rich to come forward to declare their offshore tax structures - Tell them absolutely nothing! Fri Jun 06, 2014 2:47 am | |
| One hundred of Australia's richest people have taken advantage of a rare amnesty from the Australian Taxation Office - issued in March this year - to reveal their use of secretive offshore tax havens without severe punishment.
There has also been a ''large number of expressions of interest'' in addition to those 100 people, according to the ATO's second commissioner of compliance, Neil Olesen.
The Australian Taxation Office introduced the so-called tax amnesty to encourage rich taxpayers with offshore assets to declare their interests and tax structures ahead of a global crackdown on international tax havens.
The initiative provides an amnesty for the rich - those with wealth of $30 million or more - with undeclared offshore income and assets.
It was designed to provide a ''last chance opportunity'' for those who had not declared their overseas assets and income for the last few years to come back into Australia's tax system before December 2014.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/australias-rich-come-forward-to-declare-their-offshore-tax-structures-20140605-39lzd.html |
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