Aged-care providers to face inquiry over alleged tax avoidance

For-profit nursing-home providers to answer allegations they are shifting profits offshore while receiving vast sums of government funding

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A Senate inquiry has been announced into allegations of multinational tax avoidance among Australia's largest for-profit nursing home providers.

The inquiry comes on the back of a damning report by the Tax Justice Network, which suggested big aged-care providers were shifting profits offshore and paying minimal tax, while simultaneously receiving vast sums of taxpayer funding.