Recently, several of the members of British Parliament wishing to be considered to be the next Leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister sought… Read More ›
Australians pay too much income tax – or so some argue. The Australian Financial Review’s economics editor, John Kehoe, for example, has noted: Australians are… Read More ›
The circular economy represents a move away from a traditional, ‘take-make-use-dispose’, linear system to one that designs out waste and pollution, keeping products and materials… Read More ›
New South Wales Treasurer Matt Kean has been loudly calling out failures of expenditure by the Commonwealth, as we head into budget and election season… Read More ›
Deductions for work-related expenses (WREs) have been a feature of Australia’s income tax system since it commenced in 1915. The longstanding policy justification for deductions… Read More ›
Although the devil will be in the detail, the final report of the ‘Australia as a Technology and Financial Centre’ committee (tabled on the 20th… Read More ›
The combination of death and taxes generally does not make for popular public policy. Taxing bequests (through estate or inheritance taxes) is widely viewed as… Read More ›
Would you and your mates cancel a celebration if the price of your usual drink went up while the prices of other alcoholic beverages remained… Read More ›
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