A major construction labour hire firm that collapsed owing millions of dollars in taxes paid the wives of its senior managers $875,000 each for just six months of office work in the dying days of the business.
Zenith Workforce’s former director Ned Kocic admitted to Australian Taxation Office-backed liquidators in the Federal Court he signed off on the extraordinary payments to his wife Almira and his sister-in-law Alvira as his business wound down, but justified them as they were hard-working “good wives”.
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