The calls for tax reform come thick and fast – like hammer blows upon the Turnbull government, on its knees praying for a recovery in public opinion. The AFR today gave Australian Institute of Company Directors CEO Elizabeth Proust the pulpit to call for an increase...
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Support a GST increase? Think about the children first
By Michael Janda Online business reporter with the ABC. Reposted from The Drum Increasing the GST is widely presented as the logical, perhaps the only, solution to Australia's revenue shortfall, but it is a deeply flawed tax and there are better alternatives, writes...
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts
The economic impact of stamp duty, a study by Deloitte Access Economics for the Property Council of Australia released yesterday, finds Australia’s GDP would increase by $3.3 billion and real consumption by $9.7 billion if conveyancing stamp duty was replaced by an...
A GST hike will hurt everyone. Everyone.
The AFR’s economics editor Alan Mitchell has taken a Treasury briefing. He is out this morning offering all sorts of reasons why a broader, higher GST is a brilliant master-stroke that deserves universal applause. He knows, we all know, a Goods and Services Tax is...
A bigger GST cements our place as a second class country
Australians have to endure waves of disinformation around the tax reform options before us. Every vested interest in the country is sharp-elbowing for advantage and the yelps of pain are deafening. GST is a vile tax because of who pays it. It does not matter whether...
Reform Agenda Machinations
Published as The Planned Obsolescence of the Public Interest in Online Opinion A fascinating power play continues in the debate over vertical fiscal imbalance. The strategic intent is prevalent from federal to local politics, where the health of the public revenue...
GST Wind Will Blow Turnbull Away
Letters to the Editor AFR, November 9 Increasing the GST is such an 'ill wind' policy that it singularly has the capacity to blow even Mr Turnbull's mojo into the doldrums and swing a Labor-Greens alliance into power ("Turnbull can win support for a GST rise, says...
Take action against the GST increase – now!
Having trouble reading this newsletter? View it online. The enews of Prosper & Earthsharing Australia JULY 2015 Arthur John Picton Change is Coming Are the winds of change finally blowing our way? Alan Kohler dropped by for a visit, we've...
OECD’s Housing Concerns
Yesterday's OECD Economic Survey of Australia pinpointed key areas of risk. As Philip Soos and Paul Egan showed today in their 21 chart pack, Australia's land bubble and accommodating credit cycle opens the economy to incredible risk. But the Abbott government...
GST Inequity Obvious
Letters to the Editor As published in the AFR April 7th It is absurd to say switching from income tax to GST improves work incentives. Consumption equals income minus savings. A 20% GST is much the same as a 20% flat rate income tax with no tax-free threshold but with...