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Malcolm Turnbull has raised the prospect of personal income tax relief to help middle-income earners.
The Republican tax plan would ultimately make the current system less progressive while reducing the overall burden, two things research shows make countries less happy.
Republicans rewriting the tax system have a rare opportunity to fix a major problem: most women-owned companies can’t take advantage of key provisions designed to help small businesses like theirs.
President Trump released details of his tax plan, which would essentially benefit the wealthiest Americans by repealing the estate tax and other changes at the expense of the middle class.
The administration wants to cut the tax rate on so-called pass-through entities, which is likely to lead to creative tax planning and outright evasion, damaging faith in the system.
A modest rebalancing of federal tax policy toward build-to-rent housing could fill affordable housing funding gaps. Australian funds are already investing in such a scheme in the US.
Labor has proposed a crackdown on discretionary trusts, which would raise $4.1 billion over the forward estimates and $17.2 billion over a decade.
The tax changes Trump and GOP lawmakers propose would reduce charitable giving, research suggests. But letting everyone use a tax break mostly enjoyed by the rich might prevent that.
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?
eBay still deems its Australian business to be a Swiss business and thereby avoids millions in income tax and GST.
The Trump tax cut will create new investment in America, but at the expense of countries like Australia
As these tax-exempt vehicles transform philanthropy, they’re drawing more scrutiny. Will Congress or the Trump administration tinker with the rules that encouraged their rapid growth?
By far the most significant projected savings in the government’s omnibus bill is the phasing out of end-of-year supplements for family tax benefit recipients.
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?
Some people evidently think wealth inequality is a good thing, but there’s plenty of evidence to show the problems it causes.
Tony Abbott has exhorted the government to stand up for reform and avoid new spending that does not promote growth.
What’s in store for key policy areas, from health to education to infrastructure to asylum seekers, under a returned Coalition government?
The election has plunged the country into uncertainty and has placed a possible question mark over Australia for companies looking to invest.
Is it true that religious organisations are exempt from paying tax and from standard accounting and record-keeping obligations?
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Lecturer, School of Taxation ＆ Business Law, UNSW
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Professor, Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Professor, Curtin Law School and Curtin Business School, Curtin University
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Associate Professor of Taxation Law, UNSW
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Chief Executive, Grattan Institute
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Senior Industry Fellow - Taxation and Director of the UTAS Tax Clinic, University of Tasmania
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Visiting Professor of Tax Law, New York University, and Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Taxation, QUT Business School, and ARC Future Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Urban Policy and Director, Urban Futures Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University
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Deputy Director and Associate Professor, Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University
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Lecturer in Accounting, The University of Queensland
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor of Economics, University of Canberra
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Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh