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  1. HORRIFIC: Waymo robotaxi kidnaps and imprisons teenagers

    This story is much worse than I realized. Those drinking teenagers who were shooting Orbeez from a Waymo were not just reported to the police, Google/Alphabet literally kidnapped them, locking them helplessly in the vehicle, until police arrived. This is a scenario I predicted years ago, robocars kidnapping passengers and taking them against their will to "authorities". Imagine what Trump's DOJ would do with this power.

    Despite the fact that these teens were engaging in low level misbehavior, Google/Alphabet is NOT supposed to be an arresting agent of the government. What if one of those teens had suffered a medical emergency locked in that vehicle? THIS IS HORRIFIC.

    wpxi.com/news/trending/waymo-c

    #waymo #google #alphabet #robotax #kidnapping

  2. @theconversationau
    The claim is that the ATO has no power to completely write off a tax debt.

    So what happens when a tax debt is absolutely unpayable, e.g. a person with no assets dies while owing a tax debt? Does the ATO keep that debt on their books forever because they can't write it off?

    If they don't keep it forever then they must be using some administrative basis to write it off (i.e. erase it from their records).

    If they do (absurdly) keep the debt forever then they must be using some administrative basis to determine that they won't take any further action because it's not practical.

    That suggests there ought to be some existing mechanism that could be used to ignore or write off the debts given a suitable tweaking of the administrative definitions.

    It would also be interesting to know what the position would be if the ATO had accidentally deleted the records without backup.

    #AusPol #RoboTax

  3. [the Australian tax office] “aims to clawback more than $15bn from 1.8m entities, largely consisting of individuals.” #robodebt #robotax #tax #taxes But let’s not tax huge immensely wealthy corporations fairly #australia #finance #economics
    theguardian.com/australia-news