Yeah, I get it.
But I reckon the real tax cheats.- sorry, I mean tax minimisation! - aren’t the ones putting cash through pokies. They are using companies, discretionary trusts etc and various tax jurisdictions to avoid -oops! I mean minimise!- tax.
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ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone 2 months agoNah, get rid of cash for the pokies. It alone won’t help with harm reduction but the pokies are one of the most common ways to launder money in this country. People use the resources taxes buy and should be paying their fair share.
We also need cashless gaming cards with default and settable hard limits with restrictions on when you can change it to help combat the addictions.
No1@aussie.zone 2 months ago
ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone 2 months ago
It’s both, stopping one doesn’t mean you can’t stop the othet
anathema_device@bne.social 2 months ago
@ephemeral_gibbon @No1 I'd rather get rid of the pokies completely
ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Oh absolutely, but an improvement is still good. Pokies are absolutely shit and should be ripped out, but it’ll be harder to get that to happen.