Feeling lucky?
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When the US Supreme Court legalized sports betting, states were quick to get in on the action. But as lawmakers grow reliant on taxes from betting, what do they owe problem gamblers?
Government gets R90 billion a year from fuel levies.
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Subsidies to shield the general population from oil price increases do not automatically reduce poverty and inequality.
There is an urgent need to clamp down on tax evasion in Africa.
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African countries, rich in resources, easily fall prey to aggressive tax planning and tax evasion facilitated by offshore companies.
Digital traders will not escape taxation.
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Digital transactions generate massive amounts of revenue and the Kenyan government wants to ensure that online traders pay their fair share of taxes.
Blessed with mineral royalty payments, the Western Australian Government has seen its allocation of GST revenue slashed.
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The government shouldn’t cave to WA’s calls for a change to the way GST is divvied out. The current system has served Australia well.
Do the Chancellor’s sums add up.
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Rates of corporation tax have a very human impact.
A special tax paid for the Gold Coast light rail. But there is another way.
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Much of the infrastructure Australia needs will be funded by “value capture” – raising tax revenue by boosting land values. Some have decried it as a tax hike in all but name, but it isn’t really.
One of the ways that super-rich individuals in Africa are evading tax is through keeping their money in offshore accounts.
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The number of super-rich individuals in Africa is growing, but they are not paying their fair share of taxes. African governments are losing out on roughly US$15 billion in taxes annually.
Trump certainly thinks his will.
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There’s nothing as certain as death, taxes and a Republican with a plan to cut them. But how do the candidates’ proposals stack up?
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In the first Politics Podcast for 2016, Michelle Grattan and Tony Burke discuss the challenging gap between government revenue and spending.
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The EU is thought to be losing one trillion Euros from tax avoidance, evasion and arrears. But the latest tax reform is unlikely to fix that.
Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen, on Q&A, September 7, 2015.
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Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen told Q&A that the government would have to spend close to 60% of any GST revenue raised on compensation. Is that a fact?
Tick tock, tick tock.
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The vast majority of us will get a refund from the federal government, while the odds of an audit or worse are akin to getting struck by lightning.
Do you dare gaze into the future?
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The political to-and-fro after George Osborne’s budget failed to ignite political imaginations. Maybe because all parties are struggling to rationalise the hole government coffers.
Prime minister Tony Abbott has said the upcoming budget will be “routine”.
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Discussions of tax usually focus on tax rates, not on tax bases. But both offer possibilities to increase the total tax take.