Facebook Australia pays more tax in 2020 despite profit and revenue decline ZDNet 2 hrs ago © Nataliya Vaitkevich
Facebook Australia has reported after-tax profit for 2020 financial year slipped down to AU$17.7 million from last year s AU$22.7 million.
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Revenue came in at AU$155 million, slightly lower than the reported AU$167 million for the 2019 financial year. Of that, approximately AU$153 million compromised of online advertising sales. The remaining revenue came from services, which amounted to just under $2 million.
Despite a reduction in revenue, the Australian arm of the social media giant had a higher income tax expense this year than the previous year. The company footed a AU$20.2 million tax bill, up from the AU$16.8 million tax expense last year, off the back of AU$6.1 million in tax on share-based payments and an adjustment of AU$2.7 million for prior years.
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On Saturday morning, workers at national coffee distributor Coffex woke to an all-staff email with the subject line “Lump of Shit”.
It turned out to be a missive from managing director
Fong Loong, who had arrived in Melbourne from Perth on Wednesday last week after he was potentially exposed to COVID-19 by a fellow passenger on his Qantas flight. But Loong’s foul mood didn’t end there.
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“I was treated like a lump of shit yesterday by a few imbeciles at the Brunswick office just because I was on the QF778 from Perth on Wednesday … I will never forget that treatment until I die,” he fumed at staff.
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On Saturday morning, staff inside the offices of national coffee distributor Coffex woke to an all-staff email with the subject line âLump of S â³â£.
It turned out to be a missive from managing director
Fong Loong. He had arrived in Melbourne from Perth last Wednesday and was potentially exposed to COVID-19 by a fellow passenger on his Qantas flight.
But Loongâs foul mood didnât end there.
Coffex supplies ground coffee and beans in Australia.
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