The Turnbull government desperately needs a circuit breaker. It is in an appalling mess over tax policy and it can’t afford to wait until the budget to have it sorted out.
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What if there was a middle option between retention and abolition that made negative gearing work better? There are multiple ways to improve accountability for this $8 billion-a-year tax concession.
The rest of society won’t see the benefits of innovation until governments figure out a way to effectively tax the knowledge economy.
International investors will have to comply with new rules designed to stop tax avoidance by multinational companies.
Malcolm Turnbull has not totally removed changes to capital gains tax from the options on the tax table – despite appearing to do so in Question Time.
Republicans immediately labeled the president’s budget proposal dead on arrival, but the very nature of government means it remains very much alive.
The government is caught in an awkward spot on tax – its work unfinished but critics clamouring for firm decisions.
If Scott Morrison ever watched Joe Hockey and thought “how much better I could do”, he’s getting a rough lesson in humility.
Treasurer Scott Morrison has “rescaled” the tax debate to hold out the prospect of “modest” tax relief that may prevent average wage earners moving into the second highest tax bracket.
The problem is there are already too many buyers willing to pay high prices, and negative gearing is designed to create more buyers willing to pay more.
The Australian Council of Social Service has called for the tax treatment of private trusts to be tightened, which it says could save $1.5 billion in 2017-18.
Many of us are happy for governments to increase spending on public services, but we don’t like the idea of higher taxes. There are some good reasons for this.
Fairfax-Ipsos’ first poll of 2016 has the government ahead 52-48% on the two-party vote and Malcolm Turnbull leading Bill Shorten 64-19% as preferred prime minister. While the numbers for the Coalition…
In some circles they call Fiona Nash the “Barnaby whisperer”. It’s said she’s able to calm him down. In electing Nash their new deputy the Nationals have acted wisely.
The government has released Treasury modelling showing a tax mix switch with a 15% GST and income tax cuts would deliver no gains to economic growth.
Jay Weatherill's willingness to countenance an increase to the GST angered federal Labor colleagues. But he tells Michelle Grattan he has no regrets about his "circuit-breaker" intervention.
As the government considers a tax reform agenda without changing the GST, Assistant Treasurer Kelly O'Dwyer discusses tax and superannuation with Michelle Grattan.
As Malcolm Turnbull continues to strike down the prospects of a GST increase being part of his tax package, the secretary of his department, Martin Parkinson, is taking charge of the tax issue bureaucratically…
Malcolm Turnbull has said the budget will contain the government’s tax policy, and questioned whether the benefits of increasing the GST would be worth the difficulties of doing so.
Global measures to crack down on tax avoidance by multinationals will take some time to deliver. And there’s still work to be done locally.
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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