What the Greens are proposing is really a two-tier company tax system, of the kind that once interested the Business Council of Australia and the Rudd Labor government.
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If companies are ‘people’ too in the eyes of the law - why are they taxed differently from the rest of us?
Small businesses are less productive, less innovative and pay staff less than big ones, and even before the pandemic they were shedding jobs.
More than half back a permanent boost to JobSeeker. Only one in five want to bring forward tax cuts.
Australia will be in the box seat for foreign investment, with or without a company tax cut.
The government can help boost business investment, but it would take a boost in government investment and would keep the budget in deficit.
Six years of Coalition government has had little impact on the tax system. It’s not clear whether a Labor government would be any different.
If you can understand this, you might just understand the election. Here’s our quick guide to the language of dividend imputation.
On one measure our company tax rate is the third-highest, but we like it that way because it allows us to give big tax refunds to local shareholders, many of them retirees.
The Conversation played host to really important new ideas in 2018. Some will take years to develop. Others will never come to fruition. But they’re important.
The budget looks good, for now. But the surge in taxable profits will subside as companies find ways to shift profits offshore. We’ve come up a better way to tax onshore what happens onshore.
The budget deficit is as good as dead. For practical purposes we are back to normal with financial firepower recharged for the next crisis.
The government is also dropping its attempt to scrap the energy supplement for new welfare entrants.
Personal income taxpayers are shouldering more of the burden, while less revenue is coming from taxes on companies, capital and consumption. Only major reforms will change these sustained trends.
In addition to the jobs claim, Liberal MP Sarah Henderson said 65,000 new businesses had started in the last year, compared to the closure of 61,000 businesses in Labor’s last year. Is that right?
Michelle Grattan speaks with Mark Evans about the week in politics.
Politics Podcast: Tanya Plibersek on Labor’s taxing times
Tanya Plibersek talks on Anthony Albanese's Whitlam oration, Bill Shorten's unexpected announcement on rolling back company tax for medium sized firms, and the "tough" byelections.
The decision, announced in response to questions at a news conference on Tuesday, doesn’t appear to have gone through shadow cabinet. Nor did Shorten mention it when he addressed caucus that morning.
Even though this year’s budget is pretty good politics and reasonable economics, on almost every front, it is a missed opportunity to be bold.
Politics podcast: Michael Keating on a Fair Share
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Keating told The Conversation that taxation revenue will need to rise by another 3 percentage points of GDP in the next three decades.
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