The AiGroup’s Innes Willox told Q&A that Australia has one of the highest progressive tax rates in the developed world. Is that true?
- Lecturer, School of Taxation ＆ Business Law, UNSW
The governments move to include low-value online bought goods in the GST doesn’t treat overseas and local sellers in the same way.
Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce said backpackers would be better off working in Australia with a 19% tax than in New Zealand, England and Canada. Is that true? And what would a 15% or 10.5% tax mean?
Is Labor’s Shadow Assistant Treasurer, Andrew Leigh, right to warn that each household may effectively face the prospect of paying an extra $4,500 a year in GST?
Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen told Q&A that the government would have to spend close to 60% of any GST revenue raised on compensation. Is that a fact?
The Australian Government’s plan to make offshore companies collect and pass on GST has thrown up more questions than answers.
A recent decision by the tax office that ride sharing services must pay GST has infuriated Uber. But are they being singled out?
Simply increasing the GST rate would make for poor tax design. Instead, the government should broaden the base and lock in compensation measures.
Experts have welcomed another wave of discussion on tax reform, and this time everything’s on the table.
Under Australian law, changes to the GST are said to be not permitted unless the states agree to the changes. In reality, the GST lock-in mechanism is legally meaningless and unenforceable, though it may…
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