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Budget Forum 2023: Labor Could and Should Have Gone Stronger on the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax

Difficult judgments are required when increasing taxes on projects that were commissioned under an existing regime. These were the judgments that the government had to… Read More ›

Budget Forum 2023: How Removing Parenting Payments When Children Turned 8 Harmed Rather Than Helped Single Mothers

In light of the government’s announcement to extend the single parenting payment to parents until their youngest child turns 14, new information has come to… Read More ›

Budget Forum 2023: Straightening Out the Super Tax Breaks Debate

The debate over the Government’s plan to limit tax breaks for earnings on superannuation balances larger than $3 million was loud, disjointed, and unsophisticated. This… Read More ›

Budget Forum 2023: The Priorities of Australians Ahead of Budget 2023-24

Government budgets can be framed in purely financial terms. How much tax and other revenue is coming in, how much expenditure is going out, and… Read More ›

Removal of the Tampon Tax: A Costless or Pyrrhic Victory?

Australia removed the Goods and Services Tax (GST) from menstrual products from 1 January 2019. Most feminists and menstrual rights activists regard this as an… Read More ›