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Collapsed labour hire firms headed by overseas and homeless directors

The Australian Financial Review (AFR) •
November 06, 2026 • 07:48 AM
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Liquidators are grilling the directors of a labour hire network used on major government building sites after it failed owing millions to the ATO.

Collapsed labour hire firms headed by overseas and homeless directors

A company that supplied labour to a traffic management company and later collapsed owing millions of dollars in taxes was run by a man who was not even in the country and sourced workers from a subcontractor headed by a homeless person, the Federal Court has heard.

Tax Office-backed liquidator McGrathNicol on Friday grilled directors of CommercialTC and CommTC as part of court examinations into a network of companies, largely labour hire and linked by transactions, that collapsed owing $104 million in pay-as-you-go and payroll taxes.

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