Torch said...GypsyDrifter said...Oh by the way...."what hand out to boost the economy" ?
I am single, childless
and not on a pension...so Fraking nothing for me
Went to everyone with six kids and 2 wives oh yes and backpackers...lets not forget them
The backpackers work in remote areas picking fruit so you can sit on nepolian street drinking crapaccinos
^^^^^ ok thats just a weird statement...whats fruit got to do with coffee
Dead people and expats receiving stimulus package as wellLink:-
www.dailytelegraph.com.au/nocookies?a=A.flavipesEXCLUSIVE by Steve Lewis
From: The Daily Telegraph
May 28, 2009 12:00AM
Grateful dead get a raise
THE Rudd Government has wasted $40 million by paying the $900 tax bonus to 16,000 dead people and 27,000 expats living overseas.
The revelations will rock the Government's efforts to sell its $42 billion stimulus package as a nation-building scheme.
And the Australian Tax Office said the level of payments to the dead is likely to go beyond the $14 million so far issued to deceased estates.
The $40 million in wasted payments was revealed by the tax office in confidential documents that confirmed prisoners received the $900 payment.
As well, more than $11 million was spent on "marketing" the cash splash - which has seen about $8 billion paid to 8.7 million people.
Despite racking up more than $300 billion in debt, the Government is sending about $25 million in bonus payments to people living overseas.
Even non-Australians who worked here for at least six months - but then disappeared off shore - have received the cash.The British and New Zealand economies will benefit the most - with expats living in these countries accounting for 40 per cent of the payments.
Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull will seize on the embarrassing revelations to bolster his claim the Government's $42 billion stimulus package was badly targeted.
Mr Turnbull - estimated to have a personal fortune of $178 million yesterday - called on the Government to "come clean" on how it planned to repay $315 billion in debt.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Treasurer Wayne Swan trumpeted the $900 cash bonus - paid during April and May - as a much-needed shot in the arm for the economy.
The tax office has revealed that 15,934 tax bonus payments have been made to deceased estates so far.
The numbers of dead people receiving the bonus could rise sharply, with 47,111 deceased estates lodging a tax return for the eligible period.
The tax office also admits it had no idea where the payment to dead people actually ends up.
