The ATO’s “Simplified Transfer Pricing Record-Keeping” options allow qualifying entities to opt out of Australia’s full transfer pricing requirements.
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Are spreadsheets hindering your indirect tax processes?
Spreadsheets have their place, there’s no doubt about that. But the way they’re being used in the indirect tax world right now is a cause for concern.
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Horror in Honduras: The Apocalyptic Alliance — a hidden world of money laundering
In this series of articles, international financial crime expert Robert Mazur explores the risks to financial institutions — and the United States as a whole — presented by the current administration in Honduras.
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Hybrid mismatch targeted integrity rule: final ruling
The ATO has now released LCR 2021/1 which finalises its guidance on particular aspects of the targeted integrity rule.
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Using FTAs to reduce costs and gain competitive advantage: RCEP a golden opportunity for CFOs
Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) present stellar opportunities for companies to drive substantial cost savings, gain competitive advantage and optimize their supply chains.
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Public-private sectors must work together to restore trust, manage risks post-COVID
The public and private sectors must work together more closely to restore trust and stability across international institutions and to enable them to respond more quickly to major risk events, a leading compliance expert has said.
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Ethics and risk management in the time of COVID
Ahead of the Governance Institute’s Leadership Trust Foresight conference on 7-8 December 2020, Dr Klaus Moosmayer, Member Executive Committee & Chief Ethics, Risk and Compliance Officer, Novartis AG (Switzerland) speaks with Virginia Ginnane, Marketing Content Specialist, Thomson Reuters about steering an ethical business in this challenging time.
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Cash Converters in AUSTRAC’s gunsights, as regulator sizes up next enforcement targets
Pawnbrokers, payday lenders and other non-bank reporting entities have been urged to review their financial crime controls, as the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) broadens its supervision and enforcement crackdown.
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Dirty money’s dirty secret: We’ve all been deceived – there is no ‘war on drugs’
In this article former U.S. undercover agent, Robert Mazur confesses that he, his fellow law enforcement agents on the front lines, the U.S. public and the world’s communities have been deceived. A small band of the politically powerful have, time and time again, undermined the integrity of “the war on drugs”. It’s not a war; it’s a lie, he writes.
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New Zealand’s central bank takes on first major money laundering investigations
New Zealand’s central bank is well advanced in its first major investigations into anti-money laundering and counter financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) compliance failures, as it ramps up its financial crime compliance enforcement presence.
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