Experts are in furious agreement:Australia needs tax reform. So why aren’t the major political parties talking about it?
We should remember the purpose of taxation – it’s to pay for a wide range of services that governments provide to us.
The Victorian government fears state charges that raise billions of dollars every year,such as gaming machine taxes,could now be vulnerable to challenge.
Doctors and general practice owners have welcomed a decision by the Queensland government to not subject GPs to extra payroll taxes.
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.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ intergenerational report will increase pressure on the government to embrace wide-ranging tax 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.
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.
Andale School in Kew will be slugged,alongside the highest-fee private schools,when the state government removes its payroll tax exemption.
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.
But the party won’t commit to axing the increase to land tax for landlords,citing the need to be fiscally responsible.