Labor is arguing that Australia should keep the temporary deficit levy, a tax introduced by the Coalition government to help reduce the budget deficit.
Australia is above the OECD average for some taxes, below average for others.
AAP Image/April Fonti
Australian Council of Social Service chief Cassandra Goldie told Q&A that Australia is among the lowest-taxing countries in the OECD. Is that accurate?
Boston Tea Party: aversion to tax goes way back.
WD Cooper/Library of Congress
Two centuries of tax policy show efforts to raise taxes on the rich hinge on questions of fairness. The history also suggests proponents have a tough road ahead.
Bill Shorten is not a natural orator, but was passionate and persuasive in the more sober parts of his speech.
AAP/Sam Mooy
In his budget reply, Bill Shorten avoided the government’s traps and wisely stressed his party’s traditional strengths: health, education and social policy.
There are obvious and hidden agendas behind what the budget incentivises.
Zoë Hoornaert/Flickr
Just what does the government think you will do with the changes to tax, extra money or cuts in the federal budget?
Deloitte strongly argues the budget has a revenue problem, not just a spending problem – a proposition consistently rejected by Treasurer Scott Morrison.
Lukas Coch/AAP
The federal budget deficit from now through to 2018-19 is likely to be $129 billion, $21 billion worse than in the December official budget update, according to Deloitte Access Economics.
The Panama Papers are part of a trend that suggests the U.S. tax gap – how much is still owed the government after Tax Day – may soon close. Could this mean the end of tax evasion?
China’s newly introduced “e-commerce laws” are actually just closing a loophole in regulation and shouldn’t be seen feared by Australian businesses trading with the country online.
Standing on the sidelines.
Shutterstock/Andrew Bassett
Research suggests some features of tax software can lead us to make more aggressive judgments when we file our returns, which could make an audit more likely.
Middlemen like law firm Mossack Fonseca moved into a lucrative market for tax evasion.
Alejandro Bolivar/EPA