I support the campaign by Oxfam calling on companies to pay their fair share of tax. While it is the campaign against online sales that is getting media attention, there are plenty of businesses, big businesses not paying their fair share of tax. News Corp. in Australia has come under fire on this as have others.
While the Oxfam campaign focusses on the impact on poor countries, Australia would be a better country if big businesses here paid their fare share of tax and if they did not receive the handouts they receive.
Small business does more heavy lifting as a percentage of turnover than big business. That needs to change. It will only change when we have politicians on all sides who stand up to big business.
Why focus on just corporate tax avoidance, there is a whole industry based on individual tax avoidance. Solution is easy, make all tax returns public documents.