VW Doubles Sales Pays Less Tax..ATO Please Explain....

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"As one of the world's largest automakers, we bear a special responsibility for the environment and for humankind, and we intend to put our creative powers to good use." Volkswagen Sustainability Report, 2014.

The German automaker admitted last week as many as 11 million diesel VW vehicles worldwide had deliberately been fitted with "defeat devices", software to allow its cars to cheat pollution tests.

A week has passed and it is yet to outline how many VWs and Audi diesel models may be affected in Australia. Has Volkswagen, as majestically heralded in its Sustainability Report, put its creative powers to such good use in the field of accounting and tax?

An assessment by Fairfax Media and University of NSW accounting academic Jeff Knapp found that over the past eight years the group's economic activity in Australia has doubled while its income tax contribution has fallen.
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"The ATO needs to start explaining how this company can double its sales and pay less tax," says Knapp. "In 2007 it sold 28,000 cars (passenger, commercial vehicles and Skoda) and paid $11.8 million in tax. Last year, it sold 57,000 and paid $9 million in tax."

Volkswagen has been one of the great success stories in the Australian car market. Audi and Porsche too, ultimately controlled by the same ultimate parent company as Volkswagen, have also sold very well, and been paltry tax payers too."
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