To keep government spending under control, stronger rules and targets are needed. These should be on the agenda at the treasurer’s upcoming roundtable.
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Policymakers will have to think carefully about pricing, taxation and providing discounts for buying in bulk. Else legalisation may not deliver a substantial tax windfall after all.
In this podcast, @michellegrattan and the Greens spokesperson on housing and homelessness, @MChandlerMather, discuss the $10b housing fund, rent-freezes, and net migration
The legislation doesn’t allow the Parliamentary Budget Office to obtain information from parties until the day before the poll.
The Parliamentary Library would certainly benefit from more funding, but the Parliamentary Budget Office urgently needs a wider brief and greater independence
Middle earners are set to pay 18.8% of their income in tax instead of 14.9% under the projections that show 10 years of surplus budgets.
With the current state of the South African economy and public finances, the Parliamentary Budget Office could play a major role in ensuring that this happens. But the office is in complete disarray
The promised budget surplus depends on everything going right, and much more income tax says the Parliamentary Budget Office.
The parliamentary budget office expects Australians to be paying significantly higher average tax rates in 2020/21, but their assumptions bear no relation to reality.
The amendments to South Africa’s Money Bills Act don’t go far enough - for one, they do not address incoherence in Parliament’s oversight of taxes.
South Africa’s Parliamentary Budget Office had 10 months to prepare its findings about the cost of a nuclear programme. Its final report was little more than a summary of other institutions’ work.
Critics of Australia’s fuel tax credits system have pointed to its impact on the budget bottom line, but calculating that cost is far from straightforward.
The 2016 post-election report from the Parliamentary Budget Office lacks context and comes too late to inform voters.
Labor’s policies, costed by the Parliamentary Budget office, pass scrutiny - but like the Coalition, fail the test of real budget repair.
The scandal at Uganda’s Parliamentary Budget Office shows that figuring out the proper roles, functions, internal controls, and capacities is more pressing than ever.
A Labor government would toughen the means test on Family Tax Benefit A end-of-year supplements.
The opposition will attempt to strengthen its economic credentials by announcing on Friday a package of savings to help pay for its policies and improve the budget bottom line.
Chris Bowen presented at the National Press Club on Tuesday as a well-prepared alternative treasurer, who could slot into the real job very easily if July 2 brought the chance. “Neat” is the word that…
Academic experts respond to the latest report by the Parliamentary Budget Office on the impact of student loans on the budget.
In the wake of a falling iron ore price that has cut his personal fortune by more than A$2 billion, Andrew Forrest has remained unperturbed, saying: “I didn’t count on the way up, and I’m not counting…
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