The Tax Office ordered Hudson's financier to send it 20 cents from every dollar Hudson drew. Three weeks later, Hudson was in administration.
Hudson Global Resources appears across more than 6,400 Commonwealth contracts since 2005, worth about A$974 million, 201 of them with contracted end dates beyond the day creditors wound it up. But the company depended on turning unpaid invoices into cash early to keep operating, and the Tax Office reached directly into that funding line.