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Sophistry watch

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Citizens on sophistry watch will have their own lists of suspected sophistry. Here is a case from Australia's High Court in which the cost to pay-as-you-earn taxpayers has been quantified...

In Curran v Federal Commissioner of Taxation (1974), Chief Justice Sir Garfield Barwick and Justices Sir Harry Gibbs and Sir Doug Menzies effectively found a form of words which said a profit of $2,782 was actually a loss of $186,046. Tax lawyers did nicely; self-employed persons rushed into "Curran" schemes.

That sophistry has been estimated to have cost the Treasury at least AU$5 billion at today's rates. PAYE taxpayers had to make up the difference.

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Evan Whitton was Chief Reporter at The Sydney Morning Herald and Reader (Associate Professor) in Journalism at Queensland University. He received the Walkley Award (Australia's Pulitzer) five times, and was Journalist of the Year 1983 for "courage (more...)
 
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