ATO’s ticking time bomb of unpaid construction tax bills

Construction-related businesses have built up a mountain of unpaid tax bills during the pandemic, threatening a wave of failures this year that could take otherwise-healthy creditors down with them, insolvency practitioners warn.

Construction-related businesses have built up a mountain of unpaid tax bills during the pandemic, threatening a wave of failures this year that could take otherwise-healthy creditors down with them, insolvency practitioners warn.

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