Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.... Multi-Millionaire?

I wish I could sue the pants of our obtuse incompetent bureaucracy which is letting billions of dollars of tax payer money down the drain. It is utterly appalling that even in face of damming evidence our courts and judiciary is useless, i.e. useless at doing anything. If I had my way I would bring capital punishment again and hang these greedy pigs.

Hear me out. There will always be rorts of all kinds scamming a scheme, but the genius of the VET FEE help scheme and what gets my goat is how easy it is to scam the government of million of dollars of tax payers money. Just open any bloody college, distribute a $600 laptop for every $18000 you get from the government and voila! In a few months time, you will be a multi millionaire!

I have been following one particular case for the past few months and you will be appalled at how brazen this rort is. Step by step

  1. Open a new college (one room, at the top of a $2 shop basically anything would do)
  2. Sign up your wife as a teacher in the same college. At the same time also enroll her in dozens of paid courses and use that content as yours! Afterall if you are not an education provider how else do you design a course?
  3. From the money received, open other secondary business's and pay those secondary business's obscene money using the money earned to save on taxes.
  4. Employ all your other family members as employees and pay them comically high amounts for being a 'teacher'
  5. If you are under investigation, hire the best suits with silk ties aka lawyers to argue your case.

Net result, you are a multi millionaire, the law firm is a multi millionaire, the student is under commonwealth debt which is never going to be paid and is left with an ageing laptop/iPad, your taxes have been pocketed by a greedy pig who has no morals or ethics and is probably going to use that money in the elections in his third world country to earn even more money as a corrupt politician (Can you sleep knowing how yours and mine taxes are going to be used?)

If you think I am kidding, here are the case details… all of it. On the top right hand side, click "Link to case history" for all the gory details at the following link.

http://www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Judgments/fca…

So my question to my fellow ozbargainer who are also lawyers - are we just going to be sitting ducks to all this or can I sue the federal government for brazen misuse of my tax dollars and demand for a full fuckin refund! Seriously can I do that as a citizen? We are a beautiful country governed by idiots with their head burried in sand, intent at turning this country into a third world shit. The shit that I escaped only to find more of it here!

P.S. Some delightful reading on the following links. Yeah eat your heart out! Not posting all links since they would amount to more than the deals posted on ozbargain since the start of time. Ofcourse Kidding but its closer than you think.

http://www.smh.com.au/national/vocational-education-the-bigg…

http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/living-the-high-lif…

http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/unique-internationa…

Comments

  • This is really interesting… do you run any classes on how I can get a piece of this action?

    • It is right there… step by step! Read the case link I gave you and you will be appalled. My question though remains unanswered - Can I sue the federal government for this? Or can we all sue the federal government for this? How can you sleep knowing this is happening in our great country.

  • The radio is plagued with VET FEE help college ads. Down with Commando Steve!

  • I read about this a few months back regarding an Indian couple scamming students from India into signing up with his colleges (which this couple has numerous colleges). Then these students come to Australia and work illegally for 7-11, servo, etc without actually studying.. Its a scam at an international level. So disgusted!

  • Can I sue the federal government for this? If there are enough people and a good lawyer that is willing to work for this country… shall we petition the highest court?

  • What's the point? If you sue the government and get a million dollars out of it, where do you think the money will come from?

    Unfortunately, some ideas the politicians come up with are good, but by the time it gets through the Senate and the deals struck to get it through, it would so watered down and ineffective, it would be pointless.

    Think mining tax, solar scheme, home insulation scheme, and this.

    • Two wrongs do not make a right. How can a citizen be so powerless in a democracy? Do we have any lawyers around on the forum. I am sure we can come up with something atleast.

  • +2

    Too right mate. There are an obscene amount of "Business Colleges" in my area and more are propping up. I would love to see statistics on how many of these students actually get work in their related studies.

  • YES

  • Can't help you with the legality mate, but I'm with you 100%. I love a sunburnt country, I love the people of this country, but our government is just so so incompetent.

    Not only are the taxpayers funding these scammers, but the people signing up to these courses are being lied to and manipulated.

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