Australian tax office...
Just a for example before the corporate apologists come in.... this is the kind of reason why they dont pay....
Earlier this month, Nine Newspapers alleged Mr Ellison and four other senior Mineral Resources executives defrauded taxpayers and company shareholders of around $7 million by transferring company funds to a series of accounts based in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) — a jurisdiction where companies don't have to pay income tax.
It was alleged Mr Ellison and his associates arranged for Mineral Resources to buy mining equipment from the BVI companies at massively inflated prices, the spoils of which were then transferred into their individual offshore accounts which they paid no tax on.