Recent reviews by Mein_Leben!

It's a good map. The change to a snowy environment is refreshing, and having to defend against wolf attacks adds an element of peril that doesn't really exist in other maps. On the whole, quite good. If I were to gripe about anything it's that some textures are reused a bit too much (certain tree stump/rocks repeated all over the place), but on the whole it looks very good.

Manny: (reading to kids, dressed in a worm costume) “My, what a lovely carrot” said the Hippo. “Yes, but is it organic?” said the fussy rabbit in a squeaky voice. Oh, sorry. (In squeaky voice) “Yes, but is it organic?” said the…
(Manny sighs) Bernard. Bernard.
Bernard: What?
Manny: It’s hot in the worm. Can I have a break?
Bernard: Well, you could but you’d shatter the magic for the lovely children wouldn’t you? So, no, certainly not.
Manny: (sighs) “No, it’s not organic” said the Hippo. “Well I don’t want it then” said the fussy rabbit. (One of the kids pulls on Manny’s beard) Ow, Ow!! Look, it’s a real beard I told you! (One of the other kids throws a toy at Manny)
Fran: Right, I’m finished. They’re picking me up for the hen night in a minute. We’re going to a big, old house in the country. It’s going to be brilliant!
Bernard: I very much doubt that, since you night begins with the word ‘hen’, with the prefix of ‘doom’.
Fran: It’ll be great. Claire, Becky, Tanya – all the old school gang back together.
Bernard: I thought you hated school, you had a terrible time.
Fran: I’ve never said that.
Bernard: You don’t have to say anything. I just look at you life now and work backwards.
Manny: Bernard.
Child: You’re not finished worm. What happened to the rabbit?
Manny: He… starved to death. The end.

7mm rifle go boom

Got the pack to use the 10mm to defend against wolf attacks. Works well.

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is an Australian statutory agency and the principal revenue collection body for the Australian Government. The ATO has responsibility for administering the Australian federal taxation system, superannuation legislation, and other associated matters. Responsibility for the operations of the ATO are within the portfolio of the Treasurer of Australia and the Treasury.

As the Australian government's principal revenue collection body, the ATO collects income tax, goods and services tax (GST) and other federal taxes. The ATO also has responsibility for managing the Australian Business Register, delivering the Higher Education Loan Program, delivering many Australian government payments and administering key components of Australia's superannuation system.[3]

History
See also: Constitutional basis of taxation in Australia

During the colonial period of the 1800s, a number of landholders had secured large tracts of arable land in Australia. After the states federated in 1901 to form the Commonwealth of Australia, the Commonwealth's main source of revenue was derived from indirect customs and the excise on duties on locally manufactured and imported goods. The Labor Andrew Fisher government was elected at the 1910 federal election and was concerned about large swathes of the country being under-utilised. The government introduced the first federal tax laws – the Bank Notes Tax Act 1910, the Land Tax Act 1910 and the Land Tax Assessment Act 1910 – to break up the large estates.[4]

George McKay was appointed the first Commissioner of Land Taxation on 11 November 1910.[4] The first tax return forms were issued on 10 January 1911 so that landholders could be assessed for their land tax liabilities.[4] The tax was not popular, but a High Court of Australia challenge to the land tax found the law to be constitutional.[4] The associated land valuations were contentious with more than 1,800 appeals and objections received by the middle of 1913.[4]

In his first year, commissioner McKay had underneath him 105 tax officers, assessed approximately 15,000 land tax returns and collected £1.3 million to £1.4 million. Over the next decade, the government introduced several new taxes, mainly to cope with the massive cost of Australia's collecting revenue to fund participation in World War I. By the end of the decade, the department employed 1,565 people and collected approximately £10.45 million in taxes.[4]

According to its 2013–14 Annual Plan, the ATO employs an average of 22,022 people.[5] In the 2012–13 financial year, the ATO collected revenues totalling $313.082 billion in individual income tax, company income tax, goods and services (GST) tax, excise and others.[6]

Former employee Richard Boyle has alleged that there was a culture within the ATO to increase the use of garnishee notices, which allow the ATO to access funds in the bank accounts of taxpayers.[7] This was investigated by the Inspector-General of taxation, Ali Noroozi.[8] Noroozi's findings included concerns that small businesses were not given enough time to react to a garnishee notice before having their funds seized.[9] The ATO was criticized for attempting to suppress Boyle's revelations with a non-disclosure agreement and accusing him of 66 offences related to breach of privacy.[10]

The ATO was the first Australian Government agency to introduce a virtual assistant using artificial intelligence on its website (see Artificial intelligence in government).[11]

Commissioner

Chris Jordan was appointed Commissioner of Taxation and Registrar of the Australian Business Register on 1 January 2013.[12]

The Australian Taxation Office has been headed by twelve Commissioners of Taxation:

George McKay – 1910–16
Robert Ewing – 1917–39
Lawrence Jackson – 1939–46
Patrick McGovern – 1946–61
John O'Sullivan – 1961–63
Daniel Canavan – 1963–64
Edward Cain – 1964–76
William (Bill) O'Reilly – 1976–84
Trevor Boucher – 1984–93
Michael Carmody – 1993–2005
Michael D'Ascenzo – 2005–12
Chris Jordan – 2013–present

Organisational structure

The Commissioner of Taxation is responsible for the general administration of the tax system and the ATO. The Commissioner of Taxation and three Second Commissioners of Taxation are each appointed for a term of seven years. The Commissioner and Second Commissioners are eligible for re-appointment after each term.[13] The current Commissioner of Taxation is Chris Jordan (appointed in January 2013), the previous Commissioner was Michael D'Ascenzo.

The overall strategic direction of the organisation is set by the ATO Executive Committee, which is composed of the Commissioner, three Second Commissioners, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Service Delivery Officer, and Chief Finance Officer. These roles are currently held by;

Chris Jordan, Commissioner of Taxation and Registrar of the Australian Business Registry
Jeremy Hirschhorn, Second Commissioner
Deb Jenkins, Second Commissioner
Ramez Katf, Second Commissioner and Chief Information Officer
Jacqui Curtis, Chief Operating Officer
Melinda Smith, Chief Service Delivery Officer
Janine Bristow, Chief Finance Officer

Furthermore, the ATO's operations are managed through five groups which are led by members of the executive. These groups are:

Client Engagement, led by Second Commissioner Jeremy Hirschhorn.
Law Design and Practice, led by Second Commissioner Deb Jenkins.
Service Delivery and Business Reporting and Registrations, led by Chief Service Delivery Officer Melinda Smith.
Enterprise Solutions and Technology, led by Second Commissioner and Chief Information Officer Ramez Katf.
Enterprise Strategy and Corporate Operations, led by Chief Operating Officer Jacqui Curtis.[14]

Groups are further divided into business and service lines (BSLs) which are responsible for the delivery of group priorities.
Performance

The Commissioner of Taxation is required to prepare and release an annual report each financial year. The annual report outlines the ATO's performance and achievements for each financial year.

Table 1.1 ATO net tax collections 2008–09 FY to 2012–13 FY (in $m)[6]
Financial year 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13
Total tax revenue 264,534 253,189 272,976 301,024 313,082

Legislation

Income Tax Assessment Act 1936
Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

See also

Business activity statement
List of Australian government entities
Tax file number
TaxPack

A fun, light adventure. For a relaxing time, this game is worth checking out.

It's meme-tastic!

While I get that it was intended to break up and add variety to the gameplay loop, the D.U.C.K. stuff was more annoying than amusing. Outside of that, a fun game.

The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe is... interesting. I'm a fan of the original game, and all that is still there (except the Serious Ending, which is sorely missed) which is always great. Then there's the new content which is certainly different, but I enjoyed. The relationship between Stanley and the Narrator has shifted from him trying to get you to cooperate to him seeing himself as some sort of ally with Stanley against lazy, money grabbing developers, which was unexpected but makes sense considering the sort of narrative the new content had.

Plus all the original endings having a bucket version is wonderful.

I can die happy now that I have 100% achievements on H-Sniper World War Two. You can take your Sniper Elite games if you want, but for the real authentic sniper experience you can't go past H-Sniper and the immersion it delivers. I also recommend it for the historical reality it delivers, as I'm pretty sure the front lines in WW2 were exclusively big breasted anime girls.

I bought this game back when there was only Monday to play. I've kept track of it as new content has been released and now that the game is finished...

...oh wait, it isn't finished. Sure there's five days worth of errands, but it's still buggy, load times are way too long, and many areas of the map are filled with empty buildings and rooms. My save games don't work so I have to start from the beginning which I wouldn't have a big issue with doing if it weren't for one big problem.

It's boring.

Very boring.

Many of the errands aren't interesting- clearing out the sewer, three (including one side mission) that involved hosing things down (two fires, and one where you hose down piles of ♥♥♥♥), and just general stuff that honestly I can't remember because there is little of note. There is also little escalation as the days went on. In Postal 2 you would regularly piss off various groups, be it feminists or rednecks, and they would attack you from then on. Plus the police presence would step up as the game went on, reacting to the stuff you've been doing. Here there's zero escalation up until the last part of Friday, where everyone goes nuts because of the errand at the dam earlier in the day. Kinda lame.

Don't get me wrong there are interesting things in there. The mission at the mall I enjoyed, as well as the one where you have to go install bidets. The voting mission was quite enjoyable too. But they're also joined with missions that had a drawback of some kind. The VR mission, for instance, was simply annoying. It looked like a lot of effort went into it too. Oh well.

Plus of course you're going to be spending lots of time going between where the errands are to be carried out, through a mostly uninteresting map that- as already mentioned- isn't finished being filled. Clearly putting collectable dolls throughout the map was far more important. I did the 'find the paintings' errand and boy did that drag a lot, searching through uninteresting houses to find the paintings. I suggest finding a walkthrough that circles which houses have them in it to save time.

It also isn't that funny. There is stuff that I found amusing- poking fun at cries of cultural appropriation was pretty good, but what's with all the poop and bidet jokes? Isn't there supposed to be at least some sort of attempt at satire? Postal 2 came in the wake of 9/11 and poked fun at a lot of the stuff that was happening around that time in regards to people's attitudes towards Islam. Couple that with poking fun at animal rights activists, and game violence protesters, and it- while being very low hanging fruit- actually had some sort of substance. Here it's just... gross for the sake of being gross. Which is neither funny nor interesting.

*sigh*, I really wanted this to be good but honestly I just didn't find myself having fun while playing it. Maybe in a year when they actually fill out the world it *might* be interesting. It's doubtful though, as not even a large chunk of the main missions are that great. Because of that I just can't recommend people buy it