Malcolm Turnbull has said the budget will contain the government’s tax policy, and questioned whether the benefits of increasing the GST would be worth the difficulties of doing so.
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As parliament returned this week, the government was rattled by a GST debate that had run wild, agitating backbenchers and causing the government to pause.
If the government eventually decides against embracing a 15% GST, we might look back and conclude that the mortal blow was delivered this week.
At the start of a frenetic year for independent Nick Xenophon, the South Australian senator says his new national political party, the Nick Xenophon Team, will fill a vacuum.
When Malcolm Turnbull addressed his party room on Tuesday, he had a double message.
In the first Politics Podcast for 2016, Michelle Grattan and Tony Burke discuss the challenging gap between government revenue and spending.
Scott Morrison has become a true believer in the cause of raising the GST, determined to drive a major switch in the tax mix. The big question is whether Malcolm Turnbull will end up in the same place…
A 15% GST accompanied by income tax cuts has received a thumbs down from voters in the first Newspoll of 2016.
How far should party discipline go? Not as far as certain proponents of same-sex marriage would like it to in the Liberal Party.
Last year Joe Hockey was quite clear: he issued a discussion about the Australian tax system, and promised a green paper on options and a white paper on government policy.
Treasurer Scott Morrison has opened the possibility for an alternative to the government’s present white paper process for tax reform.
The key events that made the business community laugh, cheer and despair in 2015.
Malcolm Turnbull has had a remarkable start to his prime ministership. Even in the little things.
Is Labor’s Shadow Assistant Treasurer, Andrew Leigh, right to warn that each household may effectively face the prospect of paying an extra $4,500 a year in GST?
If only the debate around the GST focused on what it takes to make a good tax system.
Treasurer Scott Morrison has declared that differences between federal and state governments over tax reform may be “irreconcilable” because states want to use funds from a GST change to spend more.
Despite all the media coverage, don’t expect any clear decisions on national tax reform on Friday. But we should see more progress on other issues, including domestic violence and violent extremism.
Former Howard government minister Peter Reith talks about the current challenges facing the Turnbull government.
There isn’t a magical formula which compensates everyone for an increase in the GST - but there is a way to ensure fairness.
Calls for GST on banking make sense, but working out the ultimate benefit is no easy task.
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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
