It's a long-running ‘dummy director’ scam that’s siphoned tens of millions of dollars from workers, small businesses and the taxpayer.
In Victoria, a small group of accountants spent 15 years signing on drug users and homeless Australians to help their clients cheat the system.
Reporter Dan Oakes investigates how this was allowed to go on for so long.

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Folge vom 16.02.2020Inside the brazen tax scam where the homeless are made company directors
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