Hogan given permission to leave country

Actor Paul Hogan will be there when his son starts high school in America next week
after the taxman agreed to let him go home after a two-week stand-off.
The travel ban placed on the 70-year-old by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) was
lifted on Friday afternoon, ending his prolonged stay Down Under following his
mother's funeral.
Hogan is expected to be on one of the next flights out of Australia to Los Angeles,
the first of which departs at 8.30pm (AEST) on Friday night.
The next one is not until Saturday morning.
Media are already camped out at Sydney's International Terminal, hoping to grab a
parting shot of the Crocodile Dundee Star.
The actor returns home with an alleged multimillion-dollar tax debt, which he claims
he doesn't owe and can't pay.
"While the commissioner and Mr Hogan remain in dispute on more general taxation
issues, Mr Hogan continues to protest his innocence and denies any wrongdoing," his
lawyer Andrew Robinson said in a statement on Friday.
The ATO served him with a departure prohibition order in mid-August when he returned
to Australia after his mother's death.
But after a "cordial and cooperative meeting" between the ATO and Hogan on Friday,
Mr Robinson said the star had been allowed to return to his home in America.
He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Linda Kozlowski and their son Chance.
Earlier in the week, Hogan said he was hopeful the ATO would lift the travel ban it
placed on him so he could be there when his son starts high school next week.
But Mr Robinson said his client still wanted to have his day in court and was not
looking to be let off because of the work he has done to promote Australia over his
career.
Hogan has insisted he has already paid too much tax in Australia and is the victim
of a witchhunt.
"If I was a tax evader, which I'm not, I must be the dumbest one in the world," he
told the Nine Network on Tuesday.
"I keep coming back here to the country, and instead of fleeing to a tax haven, I
fled to the United States of America ...
"I want not to get special treatment. I'm just Hoges and all I ever wanted was a
fair go."