Taxes

Business & Economics
Client-lawyer privilege versus the Australian Tax Office
ATO officers have broad powers of information collection, but how far can they legally go when that information is protected by client professional privilege?

Business & Economics
Over the last 21 years, the highest earners received the most tax relief
Average tax rates have trended downwards since 2001 in Australia, but it’s still the high income earners who are getting the most benefit, shows the annual HILDA survey

Business & Economics
Is it time to stamp out stamp duty?
Even though stamp duty is highly inefficient, replacing it with an alternative tax will always be controversial – but what are the options?

Business & Economics
What you need to know about the major parties’ policies on personal income tax
The upcoming federal election could be fought over proposed income tax cuts, but what’s the main difference between the Coalition and Labor’s plans for taxation?

Business & Economics
Good policy vs poor politics at Outlook 2018
The 2018 Economic and Social Outlook Conference highlighted widespread concern that politics was failing to deliver the policies the country needs

Politics & Society
Is it time to tax ‘old money’?
Australia abolished death taxes in the late 1970s, but could their reintroduction help address social inequality?

Environment
Podcast
Encore: Unexpected outcome in bagging area
How the 5p plastic bag tax changed British habits overnight, and why we should think twice about our takeaway coffee cups

Politics & Society
Budget hits political reset
Australia’s Federal Budget is as much a political as an economic plan and is the biggest spending budget outside a recession or an emergency

Business & Economics
Time to put tracking numbers on directors
It’s easier to become a company director than it is to get a driver’s licence, and researchers say it’s time to stop the unscrupulous using phoenix companies that are costing us billions.

Business & Economics
No pot of gold at end of Budget rainbow
Professor Ross Garnaut warns an over-optimistic budget update is obscuring the need to take action to boost the economy