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    Quote Originally Posted by VroomVroom View Post
    Ch 9 news this morning says there will be a charge of defrauding the Commonwealth. if he has been milking the cow imagine how many plebs below him have been doing the same.
    And then how many wanted "Hush Money" to keep their mouths closed.
    1 has already been busted trying to extract $5 Million in hush money.

    Looks like the AFP sat off them for long enough to get all they needed.
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    So far it looks like Michael Cranston is still only being charged with accessing information, and a couple of other ATO employees investigated for doing so at his behest. I doubt if there would be too many ATO staff knowingly involved in the fraud, there are too many that work there who are ready to report anyone for the slightest reason if they think it will improve their own career path.
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    Looks like the Payroll company "Plutus Payroll Australia" is in the centre of all of this!

    Interesting, i knew a bloke that was in charge of the Master Plumbers Association Payroll affairs.
    He has just been released from 3 years in Barwon Prison for a similar act.
    He only got $1.3 Million though, not $165 Million!
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    Quote Originally Posted by VroomVroom View Post
    Ch 9 news this morning says there will be a charge of defrauding the Commonwealth. if he has been milking the cow imagine how many plebs below him have been doing the same.
    I wouldn't imagine that there would be many. Most pubes are honest workers. I know everyone likes to kick them because they are easy targets but they are.

    And as bob_m_54 said in post #22, there is the career path issue....someone dobbed them in and the police wisely held off and investigated the case thoroughly.

    Besides, the perpetrators were pretty stupid flaunting everything....seriously.
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    Quote Originally Posted by enf View Post
    Besides, the perpetrators were pretty stupid flaunting everything....seriously.
    Yep and what is even more scary, is $165M went unnoticed....

    At least the guy i knew that defrauded the Master Plumbers was smart enough to hide the gains
    He owned a crap second hand car, had loans on everything, complained about the phone bill etc

    We still don't know where the money is/went...... And in these cases, once the money has "gone", its gone!
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    Quote Originally Posted by oceanboy View Post
    Yep and what is even more scary, is $165M went unnoticed....

    At least the guy i knew that defrauded the Master Plumbers was smart enough to hide the gains
    He owned a crap second hand car, had loans on everything, complained about the phone bill etc

    We still don't know where the money is/went...... And in these cases, once the money has "gone", its gone!
    I guess, but this is the ATO. $165m is a drop in the bucket....we don't know enough yet, but taken over a fair amount of time it would dilute the signs.

    Remember, that there are numerous organisations that pay little or no tax, and were they subject to taxation, a government would reap billions more. $165 million, diluted over time...phhhht!!

    Underpaying corporations (even if legally in most cases), associations, religions, trade unions. None are subject to any real taxation.
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