I Made a Fortune Helping People Cheat Their Tax
2/6/202638 min
Rick Hogg was a Melbourne accountant who specialised in minimising tax by fabricating expenses. In 2018, it all imploded and Rick got five years in prison. In this episode, he explains how the scheme worked, why he crossed the line, and what the ordeal taught him about greed.
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First 90 secondsRichard Hogg· Guest0:00
[instrumental music] Super Real Life. I lobbed up at my work one morning. Uh, there was a whole lot of police cars and Australian Federal Police cars. I thought, "Oh, something's happening over at the block of flats over, over there," 'cause they had a bit of trouble from time to time. Three of them came up walking to me and had a, a warrant with my name on it, or a search warrant. So at that stage I realized that the, the gig was up.
Julian Morgans· Host0:27
Mm. And how did you feel?
Richard Hogg· Guest0:29
Yeah, I felt a bit sick at that, at that stage. Yeah.
Julian Morgans· Host0:33
[instrumental music] Hey, I'm Julian Morgans, and you're listening to What It Was Like, the show that asks people who have lived through big, dramatic events, what it was like. [instrumental music] Hey, listeners, friends, family, if you happen to have tuned in, welcome back. So today's episode is all about tax, and that came about because I was doing my tax return this week, and I was just hating it. So I'm pretty bad at keeping records, and I'm very bad at maths, and I'm also very deeply impatient just when I'm bad at something. And this is just the most brutal combination of non-skills to try to achieve anything with. Also, my tax return's really late, so I'm ... I don't know, I'm a bit worried about that.