Higher GST? Negative gearing changes? Why we’ve got to talk about tax
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Higher GST? Negative gearing changes? Why we’ve got to talk about tax

Experts are in furious agreement:Australia needs tax reform. So why aren’t the major political parties talking about it?

  • byRachel Clun

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Why paying tax is good and,for better government,we should pay more

Why paying tax is good and,for better government,we should pay more

We should remember the purpose of taxation – it’s to pay for a wide range of services that governments provide to us.

  • byRoss Gittins
High Court’s EV tax ruling reinvents taxes,claims Pallas

High Court’s EV tax ruling reinvents taxes,claims Pallas

The Victorian government fears state charges that raise billions of dollars every year,such as gaming machine taxes,could now be vulnerable to challenge.

  • byJosh Gordon andMiki Perkins
Healthy respect for ruling on GP payroll tax changes

Healthy respect for ruling on GP payroll tax changes

Doctors and general practice owners have welcomed a decision by the Queensland government to not subject GPs to extra payroll taxes.

  • byFraser Barton
Australian fossil fuel subsidies costing taxpayers $65 billion a year:IMF

Australian fossil fuel subsidies costing taxpayers $65 billion a year:IMF

Most of the subsidies stem from the government’s failure to recoup the environmental and health costs linked to fossil fuels from polluters,a report has found.

  • byMike Foley
Workers to shoulder more of tax burden over coming decade

Workers to shoulder more of tax burden over coming decade

Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ intergenerational report will increase pressure on the government to embrace wide-ranging tax reform.

  • byDavid Crowe andShane Wright
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Plan to make Australians $7000 richer – but it will require reform

Plan to make Australians $7000 richer – but it will require reform

A massive blueprint of change says Australians could be $7000 better off,but sweeping reforms must be made across the country for that to occur.

  • byShane Wright
‘Modest imposition’:Government stands by $12,000 tax on special needs school

‘Modest imposition’:Government stands by $12,000 tax on special needs school

Andale offers small classrooms with allied health workers for just 22 students with additional learning needs,but has found itself on a hit list of schools no longer exempt from payroll tax.

  • byRachel Eddie
Tiny special needs school cops payroll tax shock

Tiny special needs school cops payroll tax shock

Andale School in Kew will be slugged,alongside the highest-fee private schools,when the state government removes its payroll tax exemption.

  • byRachel Eddie
Voice will make Australia ‘a little bit greater’:Albanese

Voice will make Australia ‘a little bit greater’:Albanese

In an exclusive interview,the prime minister said the Voice could be a unifying change as he hinted at the potential for future tax reform and named education as a key policy for a second-term agenda.

  • byDavid Crowe andJacqueline Maley
‘Parents will pay this’:Liberals promise to abolish Victoria’s private school tax hike

‘Parents will pay this’:Liberals promise to abolish Victoria’s private school tax hike

But the party won’t commit to axing the increase to land tax for landlords,citing the need to be fiscally responsible.

  • byBroede Carmody