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From policy to performance, a panel of five political experts analyses the first televised leaders’ debate of the 2020 New Zealand election campaign.
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With their different but equally conservative income tax policies, both Labour and National ask voters to consider their own appetite for risk.
Finance Minister and Labour finance spokesperson Grant Robertson: higher tax revenue will be spent on economic recovery.
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Both major parties refuse to grasp the nettle of New Zealand’s narrow and inherently unfair tax base.
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As the adult children of baby boomers start inheriting their parents’ wealth, it’s time we looked seriously at taxing this unearned income.
Government should be held accountable for its role in addressing obesity and diet-related diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, in South Africa.
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The food industry’s tactics are designed to reduce the likelihood of the government adopting global recommendations to tackle obesity.
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New Zealanders and struggling media companies are paying the price for an unwillingness to tax the tech giants’ local profits.
COVID-19 public health measures are stalling economic activity.
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Governments worldwide have put in place economic and tax relief measures to mitigate the impact on businesses and workers of drastic public health measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
2020 Australian of the Year James Muecke has called for a tax on sugary drinks – and the evidence is behind him.
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Myths that taxes on sugary drinks unfairly disadvantage the poor and will result in job losses don’t hold up. Here’s what the evidence says.
A convenience store worker hands out candy to trick-or-treaters on Halloween.
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Which candies count as candy in the eyes of the tax law? The answer often depends on one ingredient.
The Getty Fire burns next to the 405 freeway in the hills of West Los Angeles.
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Some Californians want to ban people from living in wildfire-prone areas. Behavioral economics offers a less heavy-handed approach to reducing the costs and risks.
Five new things in the 2020 state budget that will impact Indonesian citizens and taxpayers.
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Indonesia’s state budget (APBN) for 2020 was signed into law without any meaningful resistance. It allocates US$180 billion for the next fiscal year.
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Governments around the world lose about US$125 billion in revenues every year because of profit shifting to tax havens.
The new law aims to deregulate existing tax requirements to create a more open business climate.
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If the draft tax law is approved by the Indonesian parliament, individuals and businesses will be affected by at least six important changes.
French president, Emmanuel Macron has set his sights on tackling inequality.
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A fundamental driver of inequality is the race to the bottom in how governments set their corporate tax rates.
Every state bears the burden of the opioid crisis.
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State governments are leading the charge against opioid makers over their role in the epidemic. A team of researchers at Penn State examined just how much the crisis has cost them.
Minister for Indigenous Australians Ken Wyatt with Prime Minister Scott Morrison after the Coalition swearing in at Government House in Canberra.
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Geoff Crisp speaks with Michelle Grattan about the week in politics.
Our experts take a closer look at what’s in store for the country in five key policy areas: health, tax, education, infrastructure and the environment.
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Now that the Coalition has won the federal election, how will it meet its campaign promises on taxes, the environment, education, health and infrastructure?
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and Goodstart Early Learning Centre director Suzan Baljevic read to children at Ryde in Sydney, February 1.
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Labor’s childcare policy would do more for the economy than either side’s proposed tax cuts.
Johannesburg’s economic hub, Sandton, lies right next to the sprawling and extremely poor Alexandra township.
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Wealth inequality in South Africa is not only intolerably high, its also not reducing.
The Grattan Institute’s Commonwealth Orange Book 2019 serves as a guide for what the next government should do, and what it should not try to do.
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The next government can make its own luck, but it needs to focus on what matters and ignore the rest.