date:Aug 21, 2014
, but $291 million of this was refunded in the form of rebates.
Mathew Brittingham, senior associate with Adelaide wine industry accountants Finlaysons, said most cases of erroneous WET rebates were honest mistakes but several winemakers had set up shelf companies to which they would sell their wine in sham transactions to claim additional rebates.
Essentially one parcel of wine will pass through a number of entities that do nothing more than a little blending so they can be classed as a produ