28 of the 38 top economists surveyed by the Economic Survey of Australia want the GST top-up for one of Australia’s richest states scrapped.
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Former treasury boss Ken Henry has fessed up to helping dumb down debates about tax and budgets to lists of winners and losers. He says what matters is what wins rather than who.
A buyer could have to pay GST on a ‘substantially renovated’ home, but there’s often uncertainty about whether a renovation counts as substantial or not. A simple test could resolve the issue.
Overseas experiences suggests a targeted system using smart cards for buying fruit and vegetables would be more effective than broad-brush changes to the tax system.
New Zealand’s tax system might be in need of updating, but Revenue Minister David Parker’s new tax legislation is unnecessarily complicated at a time when we most need clarity.
Imagine taking money from others when times were bad, and not paying it back when times improved. That’s Western Australia’s approach to the other states.
Asked to choose the fairest ways to raise billions, half of the economists backed introducing inheritance taxes. Around a third chose winding back super tax concessions and increased resource taxes.
Heading into the 2023 election, politicians and commentators have said New Zealand’s tax needs to be fairer. But opinions on how to make the system fairer vary wildly.
The call for GST exemptions on food is a regular feature of New Zealand politics, but it’s far from the simple cost of living solution many seem to think it is.
Ending GST on some foods is being touted as a way to reduce food poverty. But cheap food comes with a high environmental and health cost. Is there a way to value food but reduce hardship?
The Australian government’s spending on its biggest tax concessions has jumped 24% in the past year.
Australia’s tax relief rules are outdated. Here are three key points for reform.
Once paid, tax becomes the property of the government. Pretending otherwise undermines the basic principles of the social contract.
In the Howard government, there was near-consensus in Cabinet that an ETS was eventually likely. A spike in asylum-seeker arrivals stimulated the hard “deterrent’ strategy” that would morph into the “Pacific Solution” in 2001.
Tasmania gets more of its revenue from “bad taxes” than any state or territory other than Victoria, and less from “good taxes” than anywhere other than Queensland.
Both major parties refuse to grasp the nettle of New Zealand’s narrow and inherently unfair tax base.
Going GST-free for six months would cost the budget $35 billion. Very little of it would be wasted.
Boosting the GST and swapping land tax for stamp duty get headlines, but they never seem to happen.
two leading economists on Australia’s post-COVID economy
Michelle Grattan discusses the economic future of Australia post-COVID with economists Richard Holden and Warwick McKibbin
We are failing to collect and giving away in tax concessions hundreds of billions.
Top contributors
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor, Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, School of Taxation ＆ Business Law, UNSW Sydney
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor, Curtin Law School and Curtin Business School, Curtin University
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Associate Professor of Taxation Law, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor in Commercial Law and Taxation, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Professor, The University of Melbourne
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Emeritus Professor Australian Institute for Business and Economics, University of Queensland, The University of Queensland
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Professiorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Economics, Director of the Australian Institute for Business and Economics, The University of Queensland
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Emeritus Professor of Taxation, UNSW Sydney
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Emeritus Professor of Finance, The University of Melbourne
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Deputy Vice-chancellor Research, Charles Sturt University
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Professor of Politics, Curtin University
