CANBERRA TAX RORTS AND PERKS REQUIRE A SENATE INQUIRY PURGE

One law for politicians and one law for everyone else.

That statement sums up the unscrupulous Australian Tax Office ruling which has allowed federal parliamentarians to "double dip" and claim a tax deduction by negative gearing their Canberra based properties against other income, by writing off expenditures which have got nothing to do with anything that's associated to their parliamentary responsibilities while they're in Canberra.

 

If a commoner, meaning the average citizen, tried the do the same thing they would have the ATO after them and most likely threatening to audit them for alleged tax evasion. It's really so audacious and brazen.

 

Why it's taken this long for this "legalized rort" to be exposed is somewhat inexplicable. But at least now the Turnbull government, the Shorten opposition and ATO have been put on the spot by the media and the ATO has been given notice to retract this ridiculous ruling which effectively is facilitating what most Australians would view as a legalized form of corruption.

 

In general, both Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten, as part of their July 2 election pitch, must unreservedly commit to instigating a senate inquiry to review all federal parliamentarian entitlements.

One of them is badly needed to expose and eliminate a number of lurks and  perks, besides this ATO tax ruling scam, which are completely unethical and excessive, and are currently being systematically abused by a very big percentage of federal MPs.