The Australian Government's plan to make offshore companies collect and pass on GST has thrown up more questions than answers.
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GST will be applied to all online goods, starting from 2017, following a meeting of state and federal treasurers.
The tax treatment of Bitcoin has been holding back the industry in Australia, but gradually the rules are changing.
If GST was added to meat, the government could raise billions of dollars in revenue while also encouraging shoppers to eat more veggies - a lipsmacking prospect for public health and the environment.
The Shadow Assistant Treasurer, Andrew Leigh, has said the the Government's latest tax discussion paper says the GST is as inefficient as income tax, adding he thinks it's less equitable. Is that right?
A package of tax reform, including a GST with a broader base, would help grow the Australian economy.
Who supports increasing the GST and who is against it? What does 'regressive tax' mean? And who will be worse off? Our experts give the answers.
Even when everyone agrees on the need for reform, there's no guarantee we'll ever see it happen.
On Sunday, June 28, New South Wales Premier Mike Baird and South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill breakfasted at an Adelaide cafe. Baird had flown to SA for the meeting. Their discussion was about Tony…
University of Canberra Director of the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis Mark Evans and Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics.
The Abbott government desperately tries, but nearly always fails, to run to a tight script.
Treasurer Joe Hockey has always been wary of going on Q&A. He was right. Hockey made policy on the run on the program when he agreed that GST shouldn’t be applied to women’s sanitary products and promised…
A recent decision by the tax office that ride sharing services must pay GST has infuriated Uber. But are they being singled out?
There is almost nothing in the Constitution that helps us make the system function, as against a mass of gaps and silences that are the sources of our problems.
The arrival of Netflix in Australia has brought into sharp relief the GST base erosion problem caused by global digital commerce. Along with the non-taxation of low-value imported goods, the absence of…
The stoush over GST redistribution followed a predictable script of squabbling between states; but now is the time for an alternative agenda.
States ready for arm wrestle with Abbott to get better deal on hospitals, schools.
Wondering about the how the GST revenue is actually allocated? Read this explainer.
Bitter battles about money hang heavily over the Council of Australian Governments meeting, though Tony Abbott wants it to concentrate on the less divisive topics.
Western Australia should not be bullied into microeconomic reform and privatisation by the federal government while their slice of the GST is held to ransom.
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