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The tax office's transparency reporting is looking a little opaque

  • Written by Roman Lanis, Associate Professor, Accounting, University of Technology Sydney
imageThe amount of tax payable from Australian corporations went down in this latest report.www.shutterstock.com

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO), in keeping with tax transparency laws, reported information for nearly 2,000 organisations, including the publicly, foreign and privately owned. However, crucial information was missing, and this keeps...

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