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

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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