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Adrian Portelli tells Mark Bouris: "I encourage audits"

The entrepreneur describes weekly tax debits and a laptop-led meeting with regulators in a fast-starting interview clip.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 36,890 views a day, 11 times a normal first day on this channel (3,455).

Adrian Portelli Opens Up About His Run-Ins With the ATO

Adrian Portelli describes arriving at a Sydney meeting with regulators in a tracksuit, carrying the laptop he would use to explain how money entered his business.

He plugged it into a screen, he tells Mark Bouris, to demonstrate a single digital revenue stream. It is the most concrete moment in "Adrian Portelli Opens Up About His Run-Ins With the ATO", a Short that has drawn nearly 36,000 views in its opening 22 hours, already more than ten times the channel's usual first-day Shorts audience.

Portelli says his business was at one point paying most of its turnover in taxes. He also describes a weekly $250,000 automatic debit. Bouris pauses to put an annual scale on that payment, but Portelli's account is about more than the size of the bill: he describes regular scrutiny from the Australian Taxation Office and gaming commissions.

"I encourage audits," Portelli says. He presents the laptop demonstration as a way to make the business transparent to the people examining it.

The excerpt follows other clips from Bouris' longer Portelli interview, including his account of frozen business accounts, as we reported here. This time, the emphasis is on how he says he responds to scrutiny: show the revenue stream and let regulators examine it.

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