The government has set out the tax benefit people in particular occupations would get in the long term under its plan, while Labor has announced funding for pathology from its cancer package.
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The IRS already has all the info it needs from 40% of filers, yet lobbying by tax preparers is stymieing efforts to make the filing process simpler.
Governments are addicted to tax revenue from harmful activities. It is stopping them from doing what is in society’s best interests.
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.
The promised tax cuts will benefit high earners in 2022 and 2024, but by then they’ll need it.
The opposition aims to put Medicare at the forefront of its campaigning, as it did in 2016. But there is a notable difference.
The debate about tax cuts has morphed into a debate about annual lump sum payments, and for many Australians, Labor is offering more.
The Labor Party has signalled that equality and fairness will form the centrepiece of its policy framework - but there will be challenges to that if it wins office in May.
Unveiled in his budget reply on Thursday night, Shorten said this would be the “most important investment in Medicare since Bob Hawke created it”.
Democratic lawmakers have offered a number of ways to reverse decades of widening economic inequality. A tax expert gives them a closer look.
Other countries seem happy to pay more tax than we do, and they are among the world’s top performers.
If tax seasons is stressing you out, a look at the worst things that could happen to you if you mess up – and why they’re so unlikely – may help.
Building a fiscally capable state won’t bring benefits in the short term but can build taxpayers confidence.
Ten years ago, almost a third of self-employed people in the UK contributed to pension schemes. That figure has dropped dramatically.
Supertaxes on very high earners needn’t be a problem.
South Africa’s finance minister delivered a budget that tried to balance serving the public interest, while maintaining the stability of public finances.
Consumers are only benefitting from cheap clothes at considerable cost to the environment and by exploitation of a poor, vulnerable garment workers.
A fairer and more efficient way of taxing wealth can benefit society as a whole.
It may not be popular, but an increase in the cost of alcohol would make us drink less and consume fewer kilojoules.
Real tax reform is about more than cutting taxes to woo voters. It’s about making the system fairer.
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Professor, Curtin Law School and Curtin Business School, Curtin University
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Professor, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Commercial Law and Taxation, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Emeritus Professor of Accounting, University of Essex, University of Essex
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Associate Professor, Accounting, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor, Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Taxation, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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