A package of tax reform, including a GST with a broader base, would help grow the Australian economy.
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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.
With the May 12 budget potentially crucial for Tony Abbott’s future, a Fairfax/Ipsos poll shows the government will go into its testing selling task with Treasurer Joe Hockey at rock bottom popularity.
University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor Stephen Parker and Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics, including why Western Australia is wild about a possible cut in its share of GST revenue.
Of all the states, Western Australia is the one that traditionally has had the most individual and, let’s face it, bolshie, identity. When it has a grievance, the west can raise hell for a federal government of either hue.
Simply increasing the GST rate would make for poor tax design. Instead, the government should broaden the base and lock in compensation measures.
Changing the GST in isolation would create serious problems, but increasing it alongside other reforms could have a major upside.
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