Asked to choose the fairest ways to raise billions, half of the economists backed introducing inheritance taxes. Around a third chose winding back super tax concessions and increased resource taxes.
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The Productivity Commission’s startling finding is that passing on wealth actually cuts inequality.
They not only direct tax-free income to children, but also to children who are yet to be born.
Tasmania gets more of its revenue from “bad taxes” than any state or territory other than Victoria, and less from “good taxes” than anywhere other than Queensland.
Not only do we not tax inheritances, we actually subsidise them, making the already well off even better off.
The media loves a victim, but sympathy for someone who won’t spend what they’ve got because they’re saving for their children is taking it too far.
Demographics are making elections about tax concessions, and soon there will be no turning back.
Four fifths of the coming bonanza of bequests are set to go to the top one fifth of recipients.
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Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW
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Chief executive officer, Grattan Institute
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Emeritus Professor Australian Institute for Business and Economics, University of Queensland, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor of Taxation Law, UNSW
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Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, University of Tasmania
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Senior Fellow, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Associate, Disability Program, Grattan Institute