A secret network of payroll companies and labour hire firms controlled by key conspirators in the Australian Plutus Payroll tax fraud were wound up still owing tax, according to allegations by former business associates.
The relationship between the conspirators and a number of national labour hire firms are part of an ongoing court dispute and the subject of documents handed to the Australian Federal Police, according to the Australian Financial Review.
Fresh allegations, taken from court documents filed this year, suggest some of the players accused in the Plutus Payroll fraud also controlled several labour hire companies, which used a different web of payroll companies also under their control.
In what has been described as one of the biggest white-collar fraud cases in Australian history, Plutus Payroll is alleged to have funnelled wage payments through a number of sub-contracted, second-tier companies.
Gill Oliver is a business and property journalist who has written for The Daily Mail/Mail Online's This is Money, The Press Association and many national and regional newspapers and magazines.
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A secret network of payroll companies and labour hire firms controlled by key conspirators in the Australian Plutus Payroll tax fraud were wound up still owing tax, according to allegations by former business associates.
The relationship between the conspirators and a number of national labour hire firms are part of an ongoing court dispute and the subject of documents handed to the Australian Federal Police, according to the Australian Financial Review.
Fresh allegations, taken from court documents filed this year, suggest some of the players accused in the Plutus Payroll fraud also controlled several labour hire companies, which used a different web of payroll companies also under their control.
In what has been described as one of the biggest white-collar fraud cases in Australian history, Plutus Payroll is alleged to have funnelled wage payments through a number of sub-contracted, second-tier companies.
Gill Oliver is a business and property journalist who has written for The Daily Mail/Mail Online's This is Money, The Press Association and many national and regional newspapers and magazines.
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