The Australian authorities volition last launching a novel fiscal chore forcefulness that volition last overseeing taxation inward the cash economy. Kelly O'Dwyer, Financial Services Minister of Australia, said details regarding the novel unit of measurement volition last forthcoming inward the mid-year budget, which is railroad train to last released adjacent Monday.
The mensurate is business office of the Australian government's multi-pronged strategy of reclaiming merely about share of lost taxation revenue. According to merely about estimates, the dark economic scheme of Commonwealth of Australia is valued at $21 billion. This figure amounts to virtually 1.5% of the Australian GDP, “If nosotros tin larn a per centum of that, apparently that’s revenue that is owed to the Australian people,” said Ms. O'Dwyer, inward an interview alongside ABC radio.
Michael Andrew, old chairman of KPMG, volition last heading the novel chore force. Australian fiscal regulators, The Reserve Bank of Commonwealth of Australia in addition to The Australian Taxation Office volition last collaborating alongside the newly formed organisation. Along alongside tackling illicit dark marketplace activity, the chore forcefulness volition likewise focus on a diversity of fiscal crimes.
As business office of the assault on the dark marketplace sector of the Australian economy, regulators may consider removing the $100 AUD banknote from circulation.
When asked virtually the hereafter of the $100 note, Ms. O'Dwyer told ABC radio:
"I'm non going to position a limit on what the taskforce tin await at."
Popularity of the $100 annotation has surged this year! According to the most recent study published yesteryear the Reserve Bank, the sum of $100 banknotes grew yesteryear 9% inward 2015/2016. This figure is virtually 1.5% higher than the 10-year average, which stands at roughly 7.5 percent.
Data from the Reserve Bank of Australia from June of this year, shows that $100 banknotes issue virtually 328 million, which represents 47% of all cash inward circulation inward the country.
The bank’s report explains that the ascent inward $100 notes tin last attributed to fluctuation of telephone commutation rates in addition to economical uncertainty, however, the study notes that “growth inward high-denomination banknotes is good higher upward recent increment inward nominal income.”
The study likewise states that $100 notes are hoarded inward times of depression involvement rates in addition to used equally “store of wealth.”
When asked virtually cash payments during today’s interview on ABC radio, Ms. O'Dwyer said:
“There’s goose egg incorrect alongside cash, per se, the lawsuit is when people don’t declare it. And when they don’t pay taxation on it.”